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Nissan Motor Co. logged a net loss of 670.90 billion yen ($4.5 billion) for fiscal 2024 as it continues to grapple with poor ...

An object believed to be an unexploded wartime bomb was discovered on a Hiroshima University campus in western Japan, police ...

Japan's rice prices fell for the first time in 18 weeks to 4,214 yen ($28.50) per 5 kilograms, the government said Monday, ...

In the balloting to choose the next pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the ...

Japanese electronics firm Sharp Corp. said Monday it will sell a liquid crystal display panel plant in central Japan, once ...

Japan's health insurance system, praised globally for supporting one of the world's longest-lived populaces, ensures medical ...

Walking out of the "Hanoi Hilton" prison a free man after six and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Douglas "Pete ...

Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu made a confident start Sunday at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a push-out victory against ...

Shohei Ohtani extended his hit streak to nine Major League Baseball games for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, going ...

Struggling Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. plans to cut around 20,000 jobs globally, more than 10,000 above the reduction ...

The United States and China began high-level talks on Saturday in Switzerland to de-escalate trade tensions, according to ...