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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Osaka High Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced a doctor to 18 years in prison for the consensual ...

Many persimmons are being dried in the city of Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, creating a scenery like orange curtains.