Pirated Japanese manga, anime and other content caused about 10.4 trillion yen ($67.8 billion) in damage in 2025, with the digital sector taking the hardest hit, an industry ministry survey showed.

Hong Kong officials on Saturday unveiled resettlement plans for thousands of people who were displaced by the deadliest blaze ...

A labor ministry panel met on Feb. 20 to consider revisions to rules that employers must follow when hiring foreign nationals ...

The scant rainfall has stunted vegetable crops' growth and some locations have experienced nighttime water outages due to the ...

MILAN--Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women’s figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years, performing a ...

A 45-year-old employee of a major trading firm who is obsessed with the U.S. military was arrested on suspicion of illegally entering a base in Japan using a fake ID.

Sanae Takaichi, who was re-elected prime minister in the Diet on Feb. 18, expressed strong determination to pursue revisions ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to compile road maps for crisis management and economic growth investment by spring, but government officials are worried about losing sight of the big picture in ...

WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s biggest and boldest tariffs. But the justices left a $133 billion question unanswered: What's going to happen to the money ...

Unseasonably warm, spring-like weather is forecast over the three-day holiday weekend across Japan, with temperatures in some areas expected to reach levels typical of late spring.

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara electrified the crowd in capturing Japan's first-ever Olympic gold medal in pairs figure ...

Diver Hiroyuki Arakawa descends almost daily into the breathtakingly beautiful waters off the coast here, carrying an oxygen ...