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The government released preliminary results of a survey on medical school entrance exams in the wake of a prestigious university admitting it lowered the scores of women to curb their enrollment.

Yamato Holdings Co. said Friday an internal probe found a moving service subsidiary intentionally overcharged customers, with the misconduct carried out systematically in some cases. The parcel delivery and moving service company said its five board members, including President Masaki Yamauchi, will return part of ...

Facing ever-growing scandals over the spending and behavior of his environment agency chief, Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump appears close to firing the man he appointed to dismantle Barack Obama's green legacy. The list of accusations leveled against the 50-year-old head of the Environmental Protection ...

Most people believe politicians lie, though the reflexive skepticism with which the current U.S. president’s pronouncements are met is probably exceptional. The secret to successful lying is to never admit to it in the slightest way. That rule of thumb has been challenged by a ...

Mitsubishi Materials Corp. said Monday its president, Akira Takeuchi, will step down to take responsibility for a slew of product quality falsifications at the nonferrous metal group. Takeuchi, 63, will become chairman without representation rights and will be replaced by Executive Vice President Naoki Ono, ...

Tadao Yanase, a government official allegedly involved in the favoritism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is expected to admit he met with a Kake Gakuen representative in April 2015.

Tatsuya Yamaguchi, a member of Japanese all-male pop group Tokio, intends to leave the five-member band after coming under fire for kissing a high school student against her will, other group members revealed Wednesday. The remaining four members — Shigeru Joshima, Masahiro Matsuoka, Tomoya Nagase ...

Acknowledging he harassed a reporter, the ministry decides to trim the disgraced bureaucrat’s benefits with a penalty equivalent to 20 percent of a half year’s wages.

U.S. President Donald Trump's doctor Ronny Jackson withdrew his nomination to head the Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday following allegations he improperly handed out drugs and was drunk at work. The withdrawal — just the latest staffing upset in an administration rocked by a ...

Education minister Yoshimasa Hayashi apologized after a magazine reported he used an official car to visit a “yoga hostess club,” threatening to add further scandal to Abe’s government.

Public prosecutors have questioned former Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa on a voluntary basis over the ministry's falsification of documents related to the controversial discount sale of state land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen, informed sources said Monday. The special investigation squad of the Osaka ...