The Roman Catholic Church has faced accusations of child sexual abuse and cover-ups around the world, as well as condemnation for not acting quickly enough.

Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa apologized for causing trouble over Ghosn’s case, which he described as “an unheard of incident” in the history of the automaker.

Osaka Ishin has long championed the reform plan while Komeito, along with the LDP, have opposed it.

The results show that support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party remains firm ahead of the Upper House election set for this summer.

About a quarter of people aged 18 to 39 in Japan were estimated to have had no experience of heterosexual intercourse as of 2015, higher than the 20 percent seen more than two decades ago, a team of Japanese and Swedish researchers said Monday. Researchers ...

Prince Hisahito, the 12-year-old grandson of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, attended the entrance ceremony for a junior high school affiliated with Tokyo's Ochanomizu University on Monday. The son of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, who will be second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne ...

China will relax residency curbs in many of its smaller cities this year and increase infrastructure spending, the state planner said Monday, in a fresh push to boost the urban population and revive slowing economic growth. The National Development and Reform Commission said it aims ...

The sole bridge connecting Kansai International Airport and the mainland, damaged during a devastating typhoon last September, was completely reopened Monday in time for the upcoming 10-day Golden Week string of holidays. Typhoon Jebi flooded a terminal and a runway at the region's major international ...

The Bank of Japan on Monday cut its assessment for three of the country's nine regions, the biggest number of downgrades in six years, suggesting that damage to exports and factory output from slowing overseas demand was broadening. The BOJ lowered its views on Tohoku, ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's losses in local elections have dented investors' hopes that Turkey will adopt painful reforms they say are needed to stabilize the economy as he moves to shore up his political base. Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party (AKP), in power nationally since 2002, ...

The U.S. on Sunday appealed for an "immediate halt" to a military offensive by Libyan strongman Khalifa Hifter, as fighting raged near Tripoli despite a U.N. call for a cease-fire. Hifter's forces and the U.N.-backed unity government exchanged airstrikes Sunday, three days after Hifter launched ...

A series of cases this year in which female students were sexually harassed when seeking help with job-hunting from employed male alumni suggest the issue is a growing problem, and have prompted concern among recruitment experts and police. Students looking for jobs in Japan commonly ...

Europe's sclerotic growth and political dysfunction inspire frequent comparisons with Japan's lost decade from the mid-1990s. The region's bout of misery this year — Germany's industrial slump and the struggle to fix its banks, Italy's inability to reform, the apparent defeat of central bankers seeking ...

The U.S. will remain the Philippines' only military ally, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin said, amid an increased Chinese presence near a disputed island in the South China Sea. The U.S. is "the only world power that is a bastion of democracy and human rights, ...

Over three months, France's "Great National Debate" has led to 10,000 local meetings, around 2 million online contributions and 100 hours of presidential talking. On Monday, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe begins trying to make sense of it all. The debate was launched in January by ...

As sea waters slowly rose around his temple and his neighbors fled inland, Thai abbot Somnuek Atipanyo refused to budge and is today a symbol of the fight to restore the country's fast-eroding coastlines. A dangerous combination of climate change, industrial farming and rapid urbanization ...

In a possible signal of what to expect at a key meeting of North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament later this week, state media reported Monday on leader Kim Jong Un's visit to a recently remodeled, modern-looking department store. The report was the fourth of a Kim ...

Minutes after takeoff, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max were caught in a bad situation. A key sensor had been wrecked, possibly by hitting a foreign object, according to four aviation experts and two U.S. officials who were briefed on the flight data. As ...

Osaka voters appear to have done little to shift the political landscape from where it was before polls opened Sunday.

Top White House officials on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's plan to name two political loyalists to the Federal Reserve board of governors, brushing aside controversies over their personal lives and qualifications to help run the world's most powerful central bank. White House economic adviser ...

Palestinians voiced alarm while Israelis weighed the gravity on Sunday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sudden election promise to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Some Israeli commentators saw the right-wing leader's pledge on Saturday, as Tuesday's national ballot approaches, as mainly a ...

China wants to work with the European Union on issues from climate change to trade, Premier Li Keqiang wrote in a German newspaper before a summit next week aimed at cementing ties. Diplomats in Brussels have said that tensions over trade, investments and minority rights ...

Pakistan has "reliable intelligence" that India will attack again this month, its foreign minister said, drawing condemnation from New Delhi, which described the claim as irresponsible. Shah Mahmood Qureshi's comments came after tensions over a February standoff between the arch enemies had appeared to ease. He ...

It's not the government but the people of Japan who ultimately signify the era of Reiwa, not the other way around.

A visit to Japan by 10 young politics-oriented Cambodians indicates that Tokyo is working outside the international media limelight to engage with both the opposition and the ruling party through its traditional twin-track diplomacy.

Spring is the time for new life, the new school year, new coworkers and, in 2019, a new Imperial era.

When trying to convey the idea of importance in Japanese use "taisetsu" for things that are sentimentally important and "jūyō" for things that are signifficant.

The government held an extraordinary Cabinet meeting on April 1 and decided that "Reiwa" will replace "Heisei" as the new era name.

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Daiya Seto claimed his third title of the national swimming championships Monday with victory in the men's 400-meter individual medley. On the final day of the week-long competition at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Seto touched the wall in a time of 4 minutes, 9.98 ...

Japanese swimming star Rikako Ikee, who has put her athletic career on hold to undergo treatment for leukemia, has enrolled at Nihon University's College of Sports Sciences, her management company said Monday. Ikee has joined the swimming club at the university in Tokyo, but skipped ...

The ironic thing about the Seibu Lions blowing up the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' "opener" strategy — in such a magnificent explosion of hits and runs on Saturday it might close the book on the opener — is that Fighters starter Takayuki Kato, the ...

The Saitama Prefectural Police department on Monday filed charges against three Urawa Reds supporters for violating the Road Traffic Act before and after the December 9 final of the 2018 Emperor's Cup. Fans of the J. League first division side gathered before the match at ...