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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

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.

The Osaka District Court on July 4 recognized an African man in his 30s who fled to Japan from his own country fearing persecution for his homosexuality as a refugee, overturning a government decision not to grant him asylum....

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.

ONOMICHI, Hiroshima -- The government of this west Japan city on July 24 suspended the distribution of flyers aimed at counselling pregnant women amid a flurry of criticism over their gender-biased undertones.

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Concerns are growing among the organizers of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka that the event may flop due to the slower-than-antici

OTSU -- A former assistant nurse who was acquitted in a retrial after serving more than a decade in prison over the death of a patient was urged by a district court here not to wear an "Innocence Project" T-shirt during her subsequent damages suit, it has been learned.

NAGASAKI -- Thirty-three Amazon Japan delivery workers in the Nagasaki area boycotted their jobs on the afternoon of Sept. 15, claiming that they were not paid incentives as promised when they received more packages during the shopping website's "Prime Day" sale in July, a labor union has revealed.

TOKYO -- A deputy mayor of the capital's Shibuya Ward called an assembly member a "pig" on a Microsoft Teams app chat that can be viewed by ward executives, the assemblyperson revealed at a press conference on Aug. 7.

-Japan confirmed that the Chinese survey ship Xiang Yang Hong 22 set up the buoy in mid-June while monitoring the vessel as it sailed through Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, a government source said. The open-sea area in question is surrounded by Japan’s EEZ....

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The chairman of a subsidiary of Japanese major oil refiner Eneos Holdings Inc. has been dismissed over sexual harassment, the firm said Wednesday, in the third such incident within the corporate group since 2022.

FUKUSHIMA -- One of the three former Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) members who have been accused of indecently assaulting then colleague Rina Gonoi denied the allegations in a trial on Sept. 25 and insisted that Gonoi is "lying" about the damage.

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.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A U.S. congressional delegation visiting Taiwan said Friday the U.S. would act if the island was attacked and promised to resol

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A U.N. Human Rights Council delegation urged the Japanese government on Friday to lead efforts in conducting a transparent investigation and supporting sex abuse victims after it examined abuse claims involving the late founder of Japan's top male talent agency, Johnny & Associates Inc.