Police in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he hit a woman in her 40s on the head multiple times with a hammer-like object in his ...

A former prime minister who heads the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on Saturday called for the country's non-nuclear weapons principles to be upheld. Yoshihiko Noda's ...

The Hiroshima District Public Prosecutors Office has indicted a 32-year-old Vietnamese woman for allegedly killing a 32-year-old Vietnamese woman during a robbery at her home in October. According to ...

A member of Japanese female techno-pop group Perfume, A-chan, said Tuesday she has married a man she described as both her "best friend" and a "fan," just months after the popular trio announced plans ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday declined to say whether the government will stay committed to its long-held three principles of not possessing, producing or allowing nuclear weapons in Japan, ...

Baumkuchen, a confectionery with German origins, has found an unexpected home in Japan, where it is now a wildly popular ...

Against this backdrop, I can’t stop thinking about a scene in the new film “A House of Dynamite.” A clean-cut U.S. Navy ...

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A leading bioethicist at Hiroshima University is calling for an anticipatory, rather than reactive, approach to ethics after ...

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

As Japan moves closer to becoming the first nation to allow research on human embryos created from lab-grown sperm and eggs, a leading bioethicist at Hiroshima University has cautioned against the ...