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A man in his 70s was stabbed in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Monday evening, and his 37-year-old unemployed son was later arrested on suspicion of violating the swords and firearms control law.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday compiled a draft proposal calling for an end to government support for large-scale solar power plants, in light of growing concerns over environmental damage and landscape degradation.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party ()削除, decided Monday to reconsider the route of the planned Hokuriku Shinkansen section between Tsuruga Station in the central prefecture of Fukui and Shin-Osaka Station in the western prefecture of Osaka.

A fire broke out at a sauna facility in the Akasaka district of Tokyo's Minato Ward on Monday, leaving two customers dead.

Tokyo police rearrested a 37-year-old man Monday on the fresh charges of dangerous driving resulting in death and a hit-and-run in the capital's Adachi Ward last month.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that the government will consider a new minimum wage target in detail toward next summer, when it will release a new growth strategy.

The remains of a victim of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, western Japan, have been identified using the first DNA testing of preserved hair, the city government said Monday.

The city of Kusatsu in the western Japan prefecture of Shiga, often confused for the famous "onsen" hot spring town in eastern Japan sharing the same name, is using the mix-up as a public relations opportunity.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday announced sanctions against Shigeru Iwasaki, a former chief of the Japanese Self Defense Force's Joint Staff who currently serves as a political adviser to the executive branch of Taiwan's government.

A 30-year-old man was arrested Monday on suspicion of attempted murder in an incident in which a man and a woman were attacked near the Mizuho PayPay Dome stadium in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.