A nationwide survey on Japan's policies related to foreigners conducted by the Mainichi Shimbun in November has unveiled ...

Professional skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who secured two consecutive Olympic gold medals in men's figure skating, will host his ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling around 2.1 kilograms of sedative-laced vape liquid used to make what has ...

Tatsuhiko Inoue, executive vice president of public broadcaster NHK, has been picked to become its new president. For the ...

A man here has been arrested and indicted on suspicion of performing medicine without a license, the latest case in a string ...

Los Angeles Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto is set to pitch for Japan at the World Baseball Classic in March, joining two-way ...

The kanji was written with a giant calligraphy brush on a roughly 1.5 meters high and 1.3 meters wide sheet of "washi," ...

U.S. strategic bombers joined a fleet of Japanese fighter jets in a joint military exercise meant to demonstrate their ...

The Japanese weather agency on Friday issued a tsunami advisory for northern and northeastern Japan following an earthquake ...

Tokyo stocks rebounded Friday on buying spurred by optimism over the U.S. economy following the Federal Reserve's interest ...

When an earthquake strikes in winter, cold temperatures and snow can slow down evacuations and raise the risk of hypothermia.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Families of victims of "karoshi," or death from overwork, on Thursday protested the recent selection of ...