TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top government spokesman on Monday expressed "grave concern" that the sentencing to 20 years in ...

GUANGZHOU, China (Kyodo) -- Cosplay and merchandise sales of popular Japanese anime series "Detective Conan" have been banned ...

Minor Japanese opposition parties Sanseito and Team Mirai both dramatically increased their seats in the proportional representation segment ...

Japan's main opposition party, the Centrist Reform Alliance, is set to lose a significant number of seats in Sunday's House ...

Japan's main opposition party, the Centrist Reform Alliance, lost a significant number of seats in Sunday's House of ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted a reactor at its seven-unit nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, ...

Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media tycoon and fierce critic of Beijing, is set to be sentenced Monday in one of the most ...

When drift ice from the frozen waters of the Sea of Okhotsk in the north of Hokkaido comes to the coast of the city of ...

Japan's real wages in 2025 fell 1.3 percent from a year earlier, marking the fourth consecutive year of decline, as pay hikes ...

The tears came twice for Sara Takanashi in Beijing -- first after her disqualification, then after Japan narrowly missed out ...

Japan saw a record current account surplus for the second straight year in 2025, posting a 31.88 trillion yen ($202 billion) ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly jumped over 5 percent on Monday morning to surpass 57,000 for the first time after Japan's ...