The Tokyo District Court on July 28 ordered a man to pay some 76 million yen (approx. $512,000) in compensation to a singer ...

Nearly half of people in Japan expect little from Sanseito, the populist party that made significant gains in the latest ...

Some 20,000 rounds of fireworks illuminated the evening skies during the Sumida River Fireworks Festival on July 26, ...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, which had taken a conciliatory approach to Russia regarding its invasion ...

Almost a year's worth of rain caused flooding and landslides that washed away cars, forced evacuations and knocked out power ...

A full-scale retrieval of melted fuel debris at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant is likely to be delayed to fiscal 2037 or ...

Tokyo stocks ended lower Tuesday for a third consecutive trading day on selling amid political uncertainty in Japan and ahead ...

The ruling on a Japanese businessman who was convicted earlier this month by a Chinese court for engaging in spying and ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided Tuesday to hold a plenary meeting of its parliamentary members soon, as Prime ...

Facing the threat of losing its official party status in the July 20 House of Councillors election, the Social Democratic ...

North Korea on Tuesday said the United States must recognize it as a nuclear weapons state if bilateral talks are to resume.

A total of 162 pregnant and postpartum women took their own lives from 2022 to 2024 in Japan, accounting for about 2% of the ...