Following a move by Tokyo, this east Japan city is set to make day care fees for children aged 2 and younger free to ...

Migratory birds called smews have arrived at Osaka Castle's moat. They are members of the duck family and come to Japan in ...

Japan's Beijing Games silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama made a solid start in his bid for men's figure skating gold at the Milan ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that its chairman, Akio Toyoda, has been selected for induction into the U.S. Automotive Hall ...

Japan won its first-ever Olympic ski jumping mixed team medal on Tuesday when it finished third at the Milan Cortina Games ...

She was one of Japan's biggest movie stars, worked with its most revered directors and quietly became one of its first female ...

This is a historic victory. For the first time since the end of World War II, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has secured ...

Strained Sino-Japanese relations over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks in November on a Taiwan contingency seem to have had ...

The Japanese yen briefly rose to the lower 153 zone against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday as long-term U.S. Treasury yields fell over ...

Kiyotaka Mizuno, a 111-year-old in central Japan recognized as the country's oldest man, has died, the prefecture where he ...

Japan's total debt rose to a record 1,342.17 trillion yen ($8.6 trillion) at the end of 2025, Finance Ministry data showed ...

The Nikkei stock index ended at a record high Tuesday for the second straight day, surging over 2 percent on hopes for ...