Four women have been arrested for allegedly soliciting customers for prostitution in the Kabukicho entertainment district in ...

The International Crime Division of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on July 24 referred a 39-year-old woman to ...

Hundreds of people filled the streets outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's office on Friday, urging him not to step down ...

Rising Ukrainian star Aonishiki continued to thrill fans at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday as he held onto a ...

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has submitted a plan to demolish a building next to the No. 3 ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation has become unavoidable. The ruling coalition has now suffered crushing defeats in ...

As Japan continues to see sweltering summer heat across the country, juvenile Japanese macaques in southwest Japan's Oita ...

A 4-year-old female polar bear named "Ho-chan" received a big ice block with her favorite apples inside on July 19 at Tennoji ...

The right-wing populist party Sanseito, which made significant gains in the recent House of Councillors election, removed a ...

A man named Jolan Bollen, 32, rode his bicycle from Hasselt, Belgium to Itami, Hyogo Prefecture in Japan. These two cities ...

Eighty women, aged 16 to 30 and selected from 135 applicants, joined the event at Tenjinbashisuji shopping street in Osaka's ...

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