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Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the...
Japanese inflation data released Friday showed that rice prices last month were a whopping 98 percent higher than a year earlier. AFP looks at...
This photo taken on March 4, 2025 and received by AFP on March 5, 2025 from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency shows firefighters battling a...
Japan-flag-waving-in-the-wind-against-blue-sky Births in Japan hit another record low in 2024, falling for the ninth-straight year as young people delay marriage while the elderly population rises, government...
This handout file photo taken on May 23, 2024 and provided to AFP on August 22, 2024 by the Ashiya City government shows Japanese woman Tomiko...
Japan-flag-waving-in-the-wind-against-blue-sky A huge fire erupted Tuesday at a Japanese rocket testing station, sending flames and smoke soaring into the sky, in the latest mishap for the...
The world’s longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted on Thursday, more than half a century after his murder conviction when a Japanese court ruled that...
People stand on their balcony above a flooded street in Trang Dinh district, (Photo by Thu Huong / AFP) Emergency workers raced to evacuate thousands...
As Japan plays host to a record influx of tourists, one of the country’s more private attractions — the high-tech toilet — is becoming a must-have...
The G7 group of developed countries on Monday said it stood behind a Gaza peace deal endorsed by US President Joe Biden, and called on Hamas...