With distrust being most prominent among younger people, 55 percent of voters said they do not trust politics, outnumbering ...

Playing catch-up with rivals who have a head start, the leader in the nation’s minivehicle market plans to release its first ...

SINGAPORE--Asia shares slipped on Tuesday while oil prices extended losses, after threats from the U.S. for an “economic ...

Taku Ueno buys beef from America, olive oil from Spain and tomatoes from Italy to stock his supermarkets south of Tokyo, ...

FUJI, Shizuoka Prefecture—The nation’s catlike icon of seemingly infinite collaborations has gained another ambassadorial title in celebration of the city‛s 60th anniversary, complete with a new look.

Senior Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces officials are expressing deep concerns that the SDF can keep up with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to rapidly expand Japan's military ...

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rattled northeastern Japan early Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the latest in a series of major temblors hitting the region. No tsunami warning was ...

Tokyo police on July 6 arrested a 15-year-old boy who has admitted to using AI-powered ChatGPT to build a program that forcibly deleted 46,000 accounts on anime streaming service “Bandai Channel,” ...

A major earthquake that registered a maximum seismic intensity of 7 rocked Kumamoto Prefecture at 4:27 p.m. on July 28, causing casualties, damaging or destroying infrastructure and disrupting ...

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi broke with convention by calling for a national debate on whether nuclear weapons should play a role in Japan’s defense. “For Japan, it’s a difficult issue to discuss ...

MOSCOW—Russia introduced a ban on diesel exports on Wednesday as part of a raft of ‌measures to support the domestic fuel market after systematic Ukrainian drone attacks ⁠on oil refineries triggered ...

Ambulances were dispatched for 3,454 emergency calls across the Tokyo metropolitan area on scorching-hot July 21, the highest single-day total since statistics began in 1963, the Tokyo Fire Department ...