Visitors to 2025 Osaka Expo to get taste of Japan’s custom of bowing
OSAKA - When visitors come to the World Expo in Osaka next year, guides for the global event will welcome them with the Japanese customary greeting of a bow.
Japan prosecutor apologizes to man acquitted of 1966 murders
JAPAN - A chief public prosecutor in central Japan on Wednesday apologized in person to an 88-year-old man who was acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case, after spending...
Japan local police chief apologizes to man acquitted in 1966 murders
JAPAN - A local police chief in Japan on Monday apologized in person to an 88-year-old man who spent nearly half a century on death row before being acquitted in a retrial...
Japan minister apologizes for interrupting Minamata victims’ remarks
Japan's environment minister apologized Wednesday after his officials interrupted remarks by some victims of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease by muting their microphones at a meeting in Kumamoto Prefecture last week.
South Korea’s prime minister and top presidential officials offer to resign after election defeat
South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials offered to resign Thursday after their ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections in a blow to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.