Mercari Inc., a major Japanese online flea market operator, said on Sept. 7 that it was removing listings linked to a ...

A Myanmar man who fled a farm in Hokkaido, where he was employed under Japan's Specified Skilled Worker status, said at a ...

Japanese students were among the top scorers in reading, science and math in an international learning assessment conducted ...

Torrential rain pounded central Japan on Tuesday, prompting an emergency flood warning for a major river in the region, as ...

Hong Kong 's first post-colonial leader, Tung Chee-hwa, who struggled to cope with an Asian financial crisis and growing ...

The backup capital push is a key pillar of the ruling coalition agreement between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal ...

Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka resigned after the municipal assembly unanimously approved the move at a plenary meeting on ...

The Bank of Japan plans to raise its policy rate to 1.25 percent from the current 1.0 percent at its policy meeting later ...

Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi may be retained in a reshuffle of the ruling party's executive ...

A woman was killed after heavy rain flooded an underpass in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 7, as torrential downpours across ...

Torrential rain pounded central and other parts of Japan on Tuesday, suspending shinkansen bullet train services linking ...

Yuichiro Tamaki has secured a third term as leader of the opposition Democratic Party for the People (DPFP), winning about 80 ...