TOKYO - A Self-Defence Force training aircraft crashed after taking off from a military base in central Japan, Chief Cabinet ... aircraft likely carried two people on board. The local fire ...

The rice is called Calrose. Calrose rice grows in California. Aeon plans to sell it mostly in big cities in Japan. People in cities have more trouble finding enough rice these days. The store ...

A South Korean court’s decision to uphold the convictions of two people for running a prostitution ring involving dozens of Japanese women has stirred outrage online – but in Japan ...

To cope with a shortage of truck drivers, the government plans to designate a lane for self-driving vehicles on the Shin-Tomei Expressway in Shizuoka Prefecture in fiscal 2024. Officials aim to ...

A postwar low of 514,000 marriages were registered in Japan in 2021 ... More than a quarter of people in their 30s--25.4 percent of women and 26.5 percent of men--said in a survey that they ...

A grill restaurant in Osaka, Japan, has sparked controversy after ... restaurant in Tokyo that posted a note banning Chinese people, written in Chinese and Korean.

Raging conflicts, disasters and worsening climate change displaced tens of millions of people within their own countries last year, a new record, monitors have said. An unprecedented 83.4 million ...

Japan stopped using the MMR vaccine seven years ago - virtually the only developed nation to turn its back on the jab. Government health chiefs claim a four-year experiment with it has had serious ...

I recognize that most people don't have writing deadlines, which could make batch drops extra annoying. But I know everyone can think of a show (or several) that came out all at once, was well ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te offered his support and encouragement to the armed forces on Friday ahead of what the government has warned could be a new round of Chinese military exercises near ...

AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...