The infrastructure ministry has announced a nationwide survey of aging sewer pipe systems following the recent road collapse ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, attended the 41st World Veterinary Association Congress ...

Eight years ago, Yuriko Koike became the first woman to lead Tokyo, beating her male predecessor. She won her third term as ...

Japan went from watching to fully participating in a large-scale joint military exercise hosted annually by the United States ...

Despite the United Nations calling on Japan to abolish the death penalty, an overwhelming majority of the Japanese population ...

Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a ...

MANILA—Japan agreed to begin discussing the export of its retiring destroyers equipped with anti-ship missiles and other ...

Beloved hitmaker Studio Ghibli Inc. will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. while maintaining its ...

NANTAN, Kyoto Prefecture—Police here rearrested a man on suspicion of murder after he admitted to strangling his adopted son ...

Infinity Castle” film trilogy concluded its official theatrical run in Japan on April 9, leaving behind numerous box office ...

Storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel from power plants are approaching full capacity across Japan, as the government’s ...

FIFA, the international soccer governing body, is trying to deal with a persistent and ugly issue as it nears the home ...