Around 75 percent of Japan's prefectures have allocated funds in their initial budget proposals for the new fiscal year ...

The BOJ "needs to raise (the policy rate) by 0.75 percentage point or 1 point," Kuroda said in a recent interview with Kyodo ...

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war in the Middle East on Saturday, claiming two missile launch ...

Chicago White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami hit his second home run in as many Major League Baseball games Saturday with ...

Nagoya-based Visionary Inc., a company providing disability welfare services, boasts a rare feature for a Japanese company: a ...

Large crowds protested Saturday against the war in Iran and President Donald Trump's actions in "No Kings" rallies across the ...

The Israeli Embassy in Tokyo has refused to accept a statement from four atomic bomb survivors' groups in Japan that ...

East Japan Railway Co. has launched the country's first freight service using shinkansen bullet trains, aiming to swiftly ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed a test of a high-thrust, solid-fuel engine test and hailed it as a development to ...

Yuma Kagiyama took silver and Shun Sato bronze as U.S. star Ilia Malinin bounced back from his Olympic disappointment by ...

An 86-year-old local Japanese atomic bomb survivor who once spoke to students in Tehran, Iran, was watching images of the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday made unannounced visits to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as Ukraine ...