An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook eastern Japan including Tokyo on Tuesday, causing some disruptions to ...

Overseas goodwill visits by the Emperor are regarded as Japan's greatest form of "soft power diplomacy" -- and invitations ...

The Okinawa Prefectural Government will pay about 91.38 million yen (around $570,400) in damages to a man who lost sight in ...

Shoko Kawata, mayor of Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, will take maternity leave. She is apparently the first local government ...

The Cabinet on June 16 approved the first basic plan under the law to promote understanding of LGBT people that went into ...

Nagasaki Electric Tramway Co. brought out one of Japan's oldest existing trams, car No. 168, built in 1911, for a ...

The Nikkei stock index ended at a record high on Tuesday, with the index briefly topping 70,000 for the first time, on relief ...

TOKYO -- Claims that "children instinctively fear adult men" and "toddlers prefers women," which often circulate among those ...

In an interrogation room at Yorii Police Station in Yorii, Saitama Prefecture, an Indonesian woman sat facing an interpreter ...

A 90-year-old woman who lost her mother and sister in World War II had their names engraved on a war memorial in this west ...

A university in Kagawa is turning one of the western Japan prefecture's most famous foods into an unlikely new material, ...

The Bank of Japan lifted its key policy rate to a 31-year high of 1.0 percent on Tuesday following a two-day policy meeting, ...