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DENVER (AP) -- As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself w

GENEVA (AP) -- Chinese officials say they did not detect any "unusual or novel diseases" in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- The mother of a woman who was arrested for allegedly mutilating the corpse of a decapitated man found in a Sapporo hotel room earlier this month said her daughter was previously involved in a violent incident with him, investigative sources said Wednesday.

SAPPORO -- A human head was found on July 24 at the home of a doctor and his daughter, who were arrested in connection with the discovery of a decapitated body at a Sapporo hotel on July 2, investigative sources said.

NIIGATA -- A symposium on making gender-neutral school uniforms inclusive of students in the LGBTQ+ community was held Nov. 18 in this central Japan prefectural capital.

NIIGATA -- A symposium on making gender-neutral school uniforms inclusive of students in the LGBTQ+ community was held Nov. 18 in this central Japan prefectural capital.

TOKYO -- A social welfare corporation based in the capital's Sumida Ward revealed on Sept. 28 that it is planning to establish a "baby hatch" at one of its hospitals in the ward in fiscal 2024 to anonymously accept infants whose parents are unable to raise them.

UTSUNOMIYA -- The Tochigi Labor Bureau announced on July 24 the work-related death of a man due to heatstroke, the first of its kind in the eastern Japan prefecture in eight years.

A man armed with explosive materials and weapons, and wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was arrested Thursday in the Washington neighborhood where former President Barack Obama lives, law enforcement officials said.

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HIROSHIMA -- After a garbage collection company in this west Japan city made efforts to improve its working conditions and go beyond a male-oriented atmosphere, women, including many with children, now represent around 40% of its workforce.

An official at the Kyoto District Legal Affairs Bureau who allegedly grabbed and kicked a subordinate for revealing the plot of the popular manga “Oshi no Ko” has been reported to public prosecutors on suspicion of assault, sources familiar with the case have disclosed....

DENVER (AP) -- Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argue that an attempt to bar him from the 2024 ballot under a rarely used "insurrection" clause of the Constitution should be dismissed as a violation of his freedom of speech.

The following is a translation of the Pledge for Peace delivered by atomic bomb survivor representative Takeko Kudo on the 78th anniversary of the Aug. 9, 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An elderly husband and wife were found dead in their Tokyo home Saturday, with police suspecting they may have died of heatstroke as

OSAKA – A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with c

The company supplies bacteria that can process 98 percent of organic waste into water and carbon dioxide in just 24 hours, eliminating the need to turn it into compost, which is often not put to use....

HIBA -- A high number of teachers in east Japan's Chiba Prefecture have recently been slapped with disciplinary measures for sexual assault against their students or children.

TOKYO -- The disapproval rate for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet hit 79% in a Mainichi Shimbun nationwide opinion poll conducted on Dec. 16.

WAKAYAMA -- The Wakayama prefectural teachers' union is demanding that foreign instructors who have passed a prefectural teachers' license exam be emp

TOKYO -- The Unification Church has published a protest against Japanese public broadcaster NHK, demanding that it stop airing and apologize for a program dealing with the religious group's recruitment methods.

NAGASAKI -- An English teacher whose employment contract with Nagasaki University was terminated just before he would have been eligible to claim an unfixed term is set to return to work indefinitely after a court settlement.