Gunma Prefectural Police announced Oct. 29 that errors in written driver's license tests for foreign nationals had resulted ...

The Sapporo District Court sentenced a 37-year-old farmer to 6 1/2 years in prison on Oct. 29 for setting fire to a mosque ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Friday stressed the need to stabilize inflation at around 2 percent, signaling that the ...

South Korean adoptees from Western nations protested outside Seoul's presidential office Friday, demanding full access to ...

A new chapter has been written in the history of shogi. Tomoka Nishiyama, holder of the Hakurei title, will become the first ...

In France, the bill for a riot could soon be paid from a family's housing aid. Some people in a violent crowd could be made ...

Toyota Motor Corp. and Waymo LLC, the self-driving vehicle unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., said Friday they will launch ...

Japan's anime market reached 4.45 trillion yen ($28 billion) in 2025, topping 4 trillion yen for the first time on strong ...

For the Bank of Japan, achieving its long-sought 2 percent inflation target is not the end of its quest for price stability ...

Japan's iconic Mt. Fuji got its first snowcap of the season on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, with radar and ...

The Japanese major weekly Sunday Mainichi will suspend publication next April, ending its more than 100-year history, its ...

A book with photos and illustrations chronicling the growth of Punch, a Japanese macaque at a zoo in eastern Japan who ...