The government plans to expand financial assistance to municipalities that currently do not provide school lunches at their ...

Calls are growing in South Korea for tougher drunk driving penalties following a series of accidents involving foreign ...

Koike-ya Inc., a popular manufacturer of potato chips and other snack foods, recently held a grand opening ceremony for a new ...

The Environment Ministry and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) will begin offering greenhouse gas ...

The Yamanote Line in November marked its 100th year since the train began operating as a loop line. Regarded as the “aorta of ...

Japan’s gross domestic product in July-September shrank at an annualized rate of 1.8% after price and seasonal adjustment, ...

Airlines anticipate the Federal Aviation Administration will end 3% domestic flight reductions at 40 major U.S. airports ...

Yomiuri Shimbun file photoNankai Electric Railway’s Rapi:t train The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] OSAKA — The ...

A hunter culled a bear that was climbing a tree near a municipal junior high school in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, on ...

Chile is headed to a tense presidential runoff after a first-round vote Sunday set up a showdown between a member of the ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel remained opposed to a Palestinian state after protests by far-right ...

Samsung Electronics 005390.KS, Hyundai Motor 005380.KS and other major South Korean manufacturers on Sunday unveiled domestic ...