Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. dipped into slush funds worth 1.7 billion yen ($10.8 million) to entertain and provide gifts ...

For Japan, crude oil procurement costs remain high and elevated prices are weighing on corporate activity. Even though the ...

News reports that show mountains of rubble in Ukraine, Gaza or Iran may remind a number of Japanese of what their nation ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi eschewed “remorse” or “pledge never to wage war” in her war anniversary speech a year after her ...

DUBAI/CAIRO/GARDEN CITY, New York--Iran called on the U.S. to accept defeat on ‌Saturday, while President Donald Trump ...

Domestic cultivation of fresh salmon and trout, species that are mainly imported to Japan, is rapidly increasing, ...

Look up “yohai” in Kojien, one of Japan’s best-known and most authoritative dictionaries, and it defines the word as meaning ...

WASHINGTON--President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South ...

The National Police Agency said March 21 it will eliminate skirts from police uniform options starting in April and offer ...

A new video forecast for Japan in 2050 predicts a future of crippling 43-degree heat waves, midday “stay-at-home orders” and severe food shortages that could transform a simple bowl of “katsudon” into ...

A major earthquake that registered a maximum seismic intensity of 7 rocked Kumamoto Prefecture at 4:27 p.m. on July 28, causing casualties, damaging or destroying infrastructure and disrupting ...

Thousands of people were still waiting for aid on the Indonesian island of Flores as the country celebrated its 81st Independence Day on Monday, days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 54 ...