By Makiko Yamazaki and Miho Uranaka TOKYO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Japan's government is considering tax breaks on gains from ...

A magnitude 5.9 quake jolted Japan on Sunday, catching sleeping residents off guard—weeks after a stronger quake displaced ...

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Sunao Takami set fire to the crowded pachinko parlor in Osaka by spreading gasoline and throwing a lit match, engulfing the ...

A major earthquake in Japan's southwest killed at least 13 people and left several injured or missing after a shopping center and a paper mill were heavily damaged.

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A cross-party delegation lands in Beijing as Tokyo tries to defrost its worst China rift in decades.

The accident occurred at Shin-Kanuma Station, north of Tokyo, on the Tobu Nikko Line, and involved the Tokyo-bound Spacia ...

In only 10 months, Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s workaholic prime minister, has taken on Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, befriended ...

GSK (GSK) announced on Monday that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has approved the company's drug Hibsago, or bepirovirsen, as a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B virus infection ...