President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed that the United States had intervened jointly with Japan to support the yen, calling the move a "signal of friendship" that would financially benefit the U.S ...

Airlines have announced plans to move up the deadline for checking in baggage at Tokyo’s Haneda airport to 30 minutes before the scheduled departure time. Starting next month, six domestic carriers — ...

Police in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 50-year-old man and his 45-year-old wife on suspicion of assaulting each other. According to police, the incident occurred at their home at ...

The recent powerful earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture has left residents reeling from the impact, with local people and foreign nationals in shelters helping each other to overcome their ...

A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and dangerous driving resulting in death after he rear-ended a motorbike, causing the death of a 53-year-old man riding it, in Osaka.

A major earthquake rocked Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and injuring at least 50 people. Speaking to reporters at ‌her ...

Three people were killed and seven more were injured, some critically, in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon, a Twin Falls city spokesman said. Police ...

A National Guard officer carried out a secret second marriage to a woman he met while posted in Mongolia, using a government travel card and forged documents to facilitate the double life, U.S.

The yen briefly surged past 158 versus the U.S. dollar late Thursday in Tokyo, prompting speculation that the Japanese government may have intervened in the market to prop up the country's currency.

The public-private entity we know as "Cool Japan" was conceived as a strategy to spearhead Japan's growth. The organization's flawed strategy and implementation has come to light. Established in 2013 ...

Anyone who has spent time on a college campus lately has probably heard laments from faculty about their students’ reading habits, or rather nonreading habits. Such complaints are more than an ...

A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force officer was indicted Monday for unlawfully entering the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo with a kitchen knife and threatening staff in March, prosecutors said. Kodai ...