The number of crimes in Japan surged by 17 percent to 703,351 in 2023, marking the second straight year of increase and ...

Bustling with foreign tourists, Tokyo's Asakusa district is seeing a 25 percent increase in commercial land prices near ...

SEOUL--Anxious about Japan’s impending release of treated nuclear wastewater from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power ...

The yen dropped to its lowest against the U.S. dollar since late 1986 on Wednesday, amid a wide interest rate differential ...

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested soccer star Kaishu Sano, who has been selected for the Japanese national team, on ...

Shohei Ohtani has set a financial record to go along with his singular on-field performance, getting a record $700 million to ...

Foreign ministers from the BRICS nations began a two-day meeting in New Delhi on Thursday as the expanding bloc faces ...

In apparent retaliation, Russia’s foreign ministry banned 13 Japanese citizens, including Toyota Motor Corp.’s chairman, Akio ...

The Immigration Services Agency said 9,753 foreign technical trainees went missing in Japan last year, marking an ...

Entrance exams for private junior high schools in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture kicked off on Feb. 1, with the percentage of ...

World Children's Day is a weighty milestone as Nov. 20 commemorates the United Nations adoption of a legal framework in 1989 ...

Misconduct at precision motor manufacturer Nidec Corp. occurred not only in accounting to inflate profits but also in ...