Children cried, adults sensed looming death and flight attendants shouted orders as flames and panic engulfed JAL Flight 516.

Mount Fuji recorded its first snowcap of the season on Oct. 30, appearing 28 days later than usual on the second-latest date ...

Kana Sekiya, 43, used to shop near a train station in Tokyo on her way back home from work. Now she drives more than 30 ...

A nephew of the Japanese girl who became synonymous with the suffering caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima handed ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako showed off their appreciation of Studio Ghibli Inc.’s anime works in this city outside ...

Work has begun to record details of the stone walls at Matsumoto Castle in preparation for rebuilding efforts should a ...

Like most lawyers in Japan, Mikiko Fukuoka began her career in corporate law at a major law firm after graduating from law ...

The Bank of Japan announced on Oct. 30 that the underlying inflation rate has reached its 2 percent target, marking the first ...

Tokyo police announced on Oct. 29 the arrest of a 24-year-old Chinese man over a May lunchtime spray attack at Ginza Six, a ...

Israelis vote in high-stakes election testing Netanyahu’s rule ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry on Sept. 11 announced that the Maritime Self-Defense Force has for the first time spotted China’s third and newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, sailing in the East China Sea.

IDC Frontier Inc., a SoftBank subsidiary that provides cloud services, said Oct. 7 that a ransomware attack caused a system outage affecting 495 corporate and local government customers. The ...