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

Tokyo stocks opened mixed Tuesday as buying tracked overnight advances on Wall Street amid Middle East peace hopes and gains ...

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani leads all Major League Baseball players in early voting tabulations for the July ...

For eight years, the United States has waged economic war on China, slapping big taxes on Chinese products before they enter ...

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

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

The first oral arguments in a lawsuit filed against a man in his 50s over his repeated discriminatory, defamatory posts ...

A Japan-related ship sustained partial damage last week while anchored in the Persian Gulf amid the U.S.-Israel war against ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito toured Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn on Monday afternoon during his official visit to the Net ...

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

The mayor of the city of Shimotsuma in eastern Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture was found dead in a drainage canal early on June 15 ...

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, ...