Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner Nippon Ishin (the Japan Innovation Party, JIP) agreed ...

Japan's pace of reducing greenhouse gas emissions slowed in fiscal 2024 as it effectively emitted the equivalent of 994 ...

A body believed to be that of a child was found Monday in the woods in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, amid a massive search ...

Ten years have passed since the April 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, the first in Japan's observation history to record the ...

The leader of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group urged Lebanon on Monday to pull out of direct talks with Israel set to ...

Oyama Police Station in Tochigi Prefecture announced on April 13 that the newly implemented "blue ticket" system which ...

A blockade of Iranian ports that President Donald Trump said began Monday could further disrupt oil prices, has spurred ...

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A female doctor in Japan who died in 2022 left about 512 million yen (around $3.21 million) to five groups in Japan, ...

Leading Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. said Monday it has suspended new orders for some products including modular bathr ...

North Korea test-fired cruise and anti-warship missiles from a destroyer over the weekend, with leader Kim Jong Un ...

Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday morning, with the Nikkei stock index gaining over 2 percent, on renewed hopes for peace talks in ...