A town in western Japan has expanded a program allowing people and businesses to put their names on stone steps leading to ...

Yokozuna Hoshoryu suffered his third straight defeat at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday as sekiwake Atamifuji ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's policy chief on Thursday declined to discuss his intentions for next year's leadership ...

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has applied the commitment procedure under the country's antimonopoly law to Amazon ...

Hanshin Tigers slugger Teruaki Sato was selected for the inaugural award honoring late legend Shigeo Nagashima after winning ...

Japan's ruling coalition and a major opposition party on Thursday submitted a bill to parliament to cut 31 seats in the House ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced Nov. 10 that the personal information of 475 people who took part in its Tokyo ...

As severe cold weather gripped much of Japan on Nov. 11, a view of Mount Fuji from a helicopter showed its peak blanketed in ...

A former employee of a prepared-food company near Tokyo was arrested Nov. 11 for allegedly placing unnecessary orders for ...

Bank of Japan Policy Board member Toichiro Asada on Thursday warned of downside risks to the economy from raising interest ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said Thursday the yen's fall in recent days has been "too rapid ...

Prosecutors again sought the death penalty Thursday for a former Self-Defense Forces member in his retrial over the 2018 kill ...