The Japan Meteorological Agency apologized Oct. 16 after issuing an emergency warning for an earthquake that was erroneously ...

The number of foreign nationals who entered Japan on a business manager visa plummeted by about 80 percent after the ...

KYOTO—A 73-year-old woman filed a damages lawsuit against a YouTuber and two others, saying that a defamatory video drove her ...

KYOTO—A high-ranking member of an organized crime gang was acquitted Oct. 16 of the high-profile murder of the prominent ...

NAHA―New Okinawa Governor Genta Koja is jettisoning his predecessors’ insistence on removing Osprey transport helicopters ...

LOS ANGELES―After ending his homer drought with a massive blast in his final game of the year, Los Angeles Dodgers star ...

Back atop the batting order, Shohei Ohtani responded with a three-run homer for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Milwaukee ...

The Japan Actors Union, consisting of actors and voice actors, released guidelines on Oct. 15 requiring consent before using ...

SEOUL―South Korea is reviewing an expansion of its military operations in the Middle East, the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper ...

BEIJING―Chinese tech giant ByteDance’s AI research unit Seed has created an Alignment & Preparedness team and launched a ...

WASHINGTON/TOKYO―The US and Myanmar’s military-backed government held talks in Tokyo last week, people familiar with the ...

Russia is trying to make an example out of a Japanese reporter who was detained simply for doing his job. Such actions are ...