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World › 06:20 PM JST - 8th January
Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward…
World › 05:49 PM JST - 6th January
Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace and tranquility" are achieved in southern…
World › 06:33 PM JST - 4th January
Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, bisecting the coastal territory and surrounding its biggest city as the new…
World › 12:40 PM JST - 5th January
Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships surrounded Gaza's largest city and fought militants at close range Sunday, the first full day…
World › 06:00 PM JST - 2nd January
Israel destroyed the homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives and bombed one of its mosques on Friday, the seventh day of a blistering…
National › 12:20 PM JST - 6th January
Japan said Tuesday it plans to ask Australia and possibly New Zealand and Chile to ban an anti-whaling protest ship from using their ports to…
Crime › 07:00 AM JST - 7th January
A police officer and a high school teacher were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of both having had sex with a 16-year-old high school girl in…
World › 06:00 AM JST - 7th January
France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering…
World › 04:57 PM JST - 3rd January
Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against…
National › 03:46 AM JST - 3rd January
A temporary tent village set up at a central Tokyo park has drawn more than 300 people without jobs or homes since it was set…
National › 11:18 AM JST - 7th January
Japanese whaling vessels searching for a missing crew member in freezing Antarctic waters have refused assistance from a hardline anti-whaling group, a spokesman for the…
National › 06:01 AM JST - 6th January
A crew member of Japan's controversial whale-hunting fleet was missing and presumed dead Monday after he apparently fell overboard in freezing Antarctic waters south of…
National › 12:49 PM JST - 8th January
The mother of three children who died Tuesday in a fire at their apartment in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, was at a pachinko parlor at the…
National › 01:18 PM JST - 2nd January
A 5-year-old girl was thrown out of the car she was traveling in on the Kyushu Expressway and was then hit by a car behind,…
Crime › 01:33 PM JST - 8th January
A 70-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for molesting a 17-year-old high school girl in his car in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture. Masahira Arai was…
Politics › 10:34 AM JST - 6th January
Parliamentary Secretary for Internal Affairs and Communications Tetsushi Sakamoto on Tuesday retracted his controversial remarks that questioned whether unemployed people who took shelter in a…
Have Your Say › 07:14 AM JST - 7th January
Crime › 11:25 AM JST - 8th January
A Ministry of Defense employee was arrested on Wednesday under Tokyo and Saitama public nuisance ordinances, accused of putting his right hand up the skirt…
World › 06:14 PM JST - 7th January
Israel pressed deeper into Gaza on Wednesday in its assault on Hamas. As the battle grew deadlier, calls for a cease-fire mounted as did outrage…
Entertainment › 04:41 AM JST - 3rd January
Actress Erika Sawajiri, 22, told reporters outside her Setagaya home on Wednesday that she and hypermedia creator Tsuyoshi Takashiro, 44, will get married at Meiji…