August downpours devastated Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo a month ago, and while damaged vehicles have been removed from roads ...

Voters in Okinawa's gubernatorial election over the weekend placed greater priority on boosting the economy than on the issue ...

A nighttime event in which participants posing as ninja from Iga and Koka in west Japan -- considered the birthplaces of ...

Crown Prince Akishino and his son, Prince Hisahito, visited a local museum preserving ruins from the March 11, 2011, Great ...

Genta Koja, the candidate backed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling coalition, is set to win Sunday's Okinawa ...

Far-right forces have made sweeping gains in a German state election. The nature of a country that has respected diversity ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that the victory by the ruling party-backed candidate in the weekend's ...

The Tokyo District Court ordered a ramen shop operator based in the Japanese capital on Sept. 11 to pay about 1 million yen ...

A Ghanaian man undergoing medical treatment who had his welfare application rejected by the city of Chiba because he is a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian oil ...

Corporate racketeers -- once common during Japan's period of high economic growth -- are dwindling in number. Even so, companies and police r ...

A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine- Poland border on Sunday shortly after senior visiting officials -- including ...