The average price of rice sold nationwide at supermarkets varies significantly by region, with a 5-kilogram bag priced in the ...

A teacher making fun of a student with stutter was part of the reason why classmates started bulling the student, a recently ...

Major convenience store chains FamilyMart, Lawson and 7-Eleven are set to begin selling reserve rice released by the Japanese ...

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The northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has seen a series of earthquakes registering 4 on Japan's 7-point seismic intensity ...

The Japanese government is set to tighten measures against unpaid medical bills left by foreign tourists who received ...

The Ritsumeikan Trust based here announced on June 3 that its affiliated universities will accept up to 100 international ...

Two major convenience store chains in Japan began selling government-released stockpiled rice at select stores in Tokyo and ...

Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea's progressive Democratic Party, the main opposition party, has won the country's ...

The government on Thursday notified Japan Post Co. of its plan to revoke the company's license to operate some 2,500 of its ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko paid their respects Thursday in Okinawa to victims ...

Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., which sold supplements suspected to have been linked to dozens of deaths, will ...