The spread of online betting stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic has created a wave of young gambling addicts who are at risk of committing crimes to pay off their debts, a nonprofit organization said ...

The Financial Services Agency issued business improvement orders to Mizuho Bank and its parent company, Mizuho Financial ...

Scallop aquaculture here is just barely keeping its head above water after being plunged into crisis a year ago when China ...

OTSU--Schools are no better at protecting children from bullying now than a decade ago, the father of a boy who took his own ...

Nineteen people were taken to hospitals after a pungent odor spread at the Ginza Six commercial complex in downtown Tokyo ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--Have sheet of paper, will fly. That simple philosophy reflects Takuo Toda’s obsession with making paper planes and seeing how long they stay up in the air. His ...

Tokyo tax authorities have ordered online financial giant SBI Holdings Inc. to pay an estimated 200 million yen ($1.3 million) in taxes on the unreported income of a subsidiary, sources said. SBI BITS ...

Arrangements are being made for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to visit the Philippines during the Golden Week holidays this spring, multiple government sources said on March 26. The visit, planned for ...

BERLIN--A feature film adaptation of Kobo Abe’s novel “The Box Man” premiered at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, 27 years after the initial plan. The film was selected for the Berlinale ...

Naoto Kan, who as prime minister grappled with a catastrophic nuclear meltdown, is calling it a day after deciding not to seek re-election as a Lower House member. “I will not run in the next election ...

BEIJING--Chinese leaders on Tuesday paid their respects to Song Ping, the longest-lived member of the most powerful decision-making body in the Communist Party, who died last week in Beijing at the ...

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on June 12 announced her candidacy for an election that already features more than 30 people intent on unseating the two-term incumbent. “I will promote ‘Tokyo major reform ...