Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivered her first policy speech in the Diet on Feb. 20 after being reelected premier by ...

Popular Japanese rock band Luna Sea's drummer, who went by the name of Shinya, has died after battling illness for years, its ...

Twenty people were trapped inside an elevator at Tokyo Skytree tower from Sunday night for more than five hours, the operator ...

Black Shadow, an 11-year, 10-month-old male Labrador retriever who worked with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in ...

Users of the Line messaging app topped 100 million at the end of last year in Japan, the operator said, with the service now ...

There's been an increase in men in Japan incorporating cosmetics into their daily grooming routines, focusing on skin care and light makeup t ...

The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo were extinguished ...

The Japan national baseball team "Samurai Japan" started a training camp in the city of Miyazaki on February 14 in preparation for the World Baseball Classic (WBC) in March. Yu Darvish, a 39-year-old ...

Emperor Naruhito, marking his 66th birthday on Monday, touched on past disasters that have affected the nation and stressed the impor ...

Hungary will block a planned 90-billion-euro ($106-billion) European Union loan to Ukraine until the flow of Russian oil thr ...

North Korea aired a new propaganda film on TV about a failed assassination attempt on the country's supreme leader, with ...

In Hungary's capital, a city best known for its goulash, a pizzeria is inviting diners to travel back two millennia to a tim ...