A memorial service was held at Kotoku-in temple here on Nov. 4 to honor the victims of an earthquake that struck Myanmar in ...

The Osaka chapter of Nippon Ishin (the Japan Innovation Party, or JIP) used government-funded party subsidies to pay a ...

Japan's National Police Agency on Thursday amended rules to allow police officers to use rifles to cull bears, in response to ...

Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) has installed mirrors along the walls of escalators at JR Hakata Station in the city of ...

Ten people including children were taken to hospital with minor injuries after a car crashed into a special-needs school bus ...

The Ito city assembly in Shizuoka Prefecture has passed a second no-confidence resolution against Mayor Maki Takubo over ...

A Japanese man has been arrested on suspicion of illegally employing a 12-year-old Thai girl at a private-room massage parlor ...

A meeting of related ministers to discuss the Japanese government's policy on foreigners in the country was convened on Nov.

Orders for a black leather bag favored by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi surged at a long-established leather craft ...

Tokyo stocks rebounded Thursday, with the Nikkei index briefly gaining over 2 percent, driven by dip-buying after recent ...

Major League Baseball's spring training schedule will open Feb. 20 with seven games, including the New York Yankees against ...

Japan deployed troops Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous ...