Japan and the United States last week started working-level talks on Tokyo's host nation support for U.S. forces in Japan, people familiar with the matter told Jiji Press on Wednesday. The U.S. govern ...

The Osaka prefectural police have arrested eight Vietnamese men on suspicion of possessing stimulant drugs at a commercial building in the western Japan prefecture, it was learned Wednesday. The ...

Nippon Paper Industries Co. President Akira Sebe on Wednesday lamented the deaths of nine people in an accident in which a chimney at a plant collapsed following last week's major earthquake in ...