Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced that in September he will step down as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, which became the country's agenda with corruption allegations. “Politics cannot function without public…

Japanese authorities announced that the body of one of the two police officers who were swept away by floodwaters during heavy rainfall in Yamagata and Akita prefectures on Thursday has been found, bringing the death toll to 3. The search…

Authorities in Japan's Yamagata Prefecture said they found another dead body in the floodwaters, which also hit Akita Prefecture. It was detected that the body belonged to one of the 2 police officers who were swept away by the flood with…

Heavy rains in Japan's Yamagata and Akita prefectures have caused deaths and disappearances since yesterday. A man who went missing on the banks of the Omono River in Akita prefecture was found dead. Meanwhile, authorities reported that two…