This is part of a series on issues surrounding freedom of speech, focusing on “justice” in society where social media and ...

Two-time Olympic figure skating medalist Shoma Uno is donning another professional mantle as a new member of the esports team ...

Police have arrested an Asahiyama Zoo employee here who said he burned the body of his wife in an incinerator at his ...

Uchiyama and Koike had thought their generation would resolve the surname issue. But when their married daughter revealed her ...

Prosecutors pointed out that the defendant ignored the reality that it would be difficult to provide nursing care by himself.

Former world No. 4-ranked and 2014 U.S. Open finalist Kei Nishikori said Thursday on social media that he plans to retire at ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. ​on Thursday posted ‌a net loss of 454.3 billion ​yen ($2.85 billion) for ​the fiscal year ended ⁠in ...

Japan intervened to prop up the yen against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, its first official currency action in nearly two ...

HIROSHIMA--As wars and turbulent politics swirl across the globe, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum here offers a place of ...

Seven decades on, Minamata disease far from being resolved. MINAMATA, Kumamoto Prefecture--As Japan marked the 70th ...

That was how her “Society of the voiceless” was born and became the origin of Japan’s civilian anti-war movement. Earlier ...

The yen eased slightly against the dollar on Friday, but was still poised ‌for its steepest weekly gain in more than two ...