Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Wednesday he was appointed as the country's new farm minister, after Taku ...

Farm minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after experiencing a backlash over a controversial admission that he does not ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to sack farm minister Taku Eto, sources close to the matter said Tuesday, under ...

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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced May 20 that the basic water charge for all general households in the capital will be waived ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers had his no-hit bid broken up by Arizona's Ketel Marte in the seventh inning ...

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Smartphone exports from China to the United States in April plunged about 70 percent from a year earlier amid a tariff ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Bulgarian President Rumen Radev agreed Tuesday to upgrade bilateral relations to a ...

Tokyo stocks were mixed Wednesday morning, as the market was pressured by selling after Wall Street losses overnight, while ...

Japan's government on Tuesday proposed 17 industries for inclusion in a new program to replace the foreign trainee scheme, ...