Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on July 27 reiterated that she neither approved nor knew about a cryptocurrency bearing ...

Visitors are flocking to Futamigaura beach in this southwestern Japan city, as the summer season reaches its peak, drawn by ...

One in five mothers quit their jobs after a child stopped attending school or became reluctant to go, roughly 30 times the ...

A Japanese court on Monday ordered the central government and Kumamoto Prefecture to pay damages totaling 23 million yen ...

A special session of the Diet has come to a close, laying bare a critical situation facing the Japanese legislature. Prime ...

The government plans to raise the bar for granting permanent residency to foreigners by requiring incomes higher than the ...

The Omotesando approach to Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, bustled with customers from early in the ...

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Tokyo stocks rose Monday after crude oil prices retreated on expectations that tensions in the Middle East would ease, ...

Japan's former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori revealed Sunday that his declining motivation due to mounting injuries lay behind ...

Russian ballistic missiles struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Sunday, setting off fires and wounding at least ...