Despite the United Nations calling on Japan to abolish the death penalty, an overwhelming majority of the Japanese population ...

Japanese teenager Rena Kawasaki won this year’s International Children’s Peace Prize on Nov. 14 for her work to get more ...

Beloved hitmaker Studio Ghibli Inc. will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. while maintaining its ...

Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a ...

Japan went from watching to fully participating in a large-scale joint military exercise hosted annually by the United States ...

Beverage giant Kirin Holdings Co. will acquire Australian natural health products maker Blackmores Ltd. for 1.88 billion ...

MANILA—Japan agreed to begin discussing the export of its retiring destroyers equipped with anti-ship missiles and other ...

The Japanese government adopted plans on Friday to scrap its current foreign trainee program, which has been criticized as a ...

NANTAN, Kyoto Prefecture—Police here rearrested a man on suspicion of murder after he admitted to strangling his adopted son ...

Decorative belt fittings believed to be Korean in origin from the sixth to seventh century have been excavated for the first ...

OSAKA--As Universal Studios Japan in this western metropolis celebrates its 25th anniversary, a current limited-time event ...

The Nikkei 225 index closed at a record high 62,833.84, on May 7 after optimism for an end to the Iran war led to ...