The number of babies born in January-June fell 3.1% from a year earlier to 339,280 in Japan, hitting a new record low for the first half, the health ministry said Friday. The January-June figure, ...

A 24-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in an apartment building in Kobe on Wednesday evening, with police searching for a male suspect who fled the scene. Hyogo Prefectural Police said they received ...