A 93-year-old former top bureaucrat who was serving a sentence for a high-profile 2019 Tokyo car accident that left two ...

Kyodo News mistakenly reported in Japanese that House of Councillors member Akiko Ikuina visited the war-linked Yasukuni ...

Japanese officials have held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

The U.S.-based LPGA Tour named Japan's Ayaka Furue as the winner of the Vare Trophy for scoring average and Mao Saigo as th ...

South Korea paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan's Sado Island Gold Mines in a memorial ceremony on Monday ...

Australia said Monday it has shortlisted Japan and Germany to build its new fleet of general purpose frigates in a program ...

Tokyo stocks advanced Monday, with the Nikkei index briefly rising 2 percent, supported by a record high on the U.S. Dow ...

The deadliest place for women is at home and 140 women and girls on average were killed by an intimate partner or family ...

The support rate for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plummeted to 31%, while the disapproval rate increased to ...

The Japan Volleyball Association announced Monday that Olympic gold medal-winning French coach Laurent Tillie will take ...

A woman was arrested Nov. 23 on suspicion of leaving her then 8-year-old daughter, who had brain damage and needed suctioning ...

Some 78% of Nihon Michelin Tire Co. workers are satisfied with the company headquarters' move from the bright lights of Tokyo ...