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A Japanese documentary filmmaker detained in Myanmar and sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly breaking immigration law, among other violations, has been given a pardon and will return home, the Japanese government said Thursday.…

A group of Vietnamese technical interns whose former employer failed to pay them a total of 27 million yen ($194,000) for overtime held a press conference Wednesday to expose the illegally long hours they were made to work and call for the…

Japan's daily COVID-19 cases topped 100,000 on Tuesday for the first time in two months after the government scrapped coronavirus border controls and implemented a domestic travel subsidy program in a bid to spur inbound and local tourism…

Japan will allow international cruise ships to dock at its ports, transport minister Tetsuo Saito said Tuesday, lifting a more than two-year ban imposed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to stem the virus' spread in the country. The…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is scheduled to hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Thailand on Thursday, in what would be the first summit between the leaders of the two countries in roughly three years, the government…

The Tokyo High Court on Monday temporarily banned entry into its building and canceled some scheduled trial sessions after receiving a bomb threat, the court said. The building at the heart of Tokyo's Kasumigaseki administrative district…

Japan's proposal to acquire so-called enemy base strike capability will prohibit it from launching preemptive attacks that would violate international law and keep counterattacks at a minimum when invoked, government sources said Saturday.…

Nearly 60 percent of people in Japan were unaware of government guidance that wearing masks outdoors for protection against the coronavirus is unnecessary in most cases, recent survey results have shown. Although the guidelines were issued…

The Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military on Thursday began a large-scale joint exercise mainly in and around Japan's southwestern islands, in an effort to boost their operational capability in those areas, with China's…

Japan and the United States eye holding "two-plus-two" security talks between their foreign and defense ministers soon, possibly in January, diplomatic sources said Wednesday, with the allies facing greater security challenges from China,…