Following the spread on social media of a video showing a student acting violently toward another student at a municipal ...

About 1,200 people joined a Jan. 11 anti-discrimination march in this city just north of Tokyo, where foreign nationals make ...

Japan's snap general election is likely to be held on Feb. 8, with official campaigning starting from Jan. 27, senior members ...

Injury-hampered yokozuna Onosato survived a close call against former sekiwake Takanosho to improve to 4-1 at the New Year ...

Japan's main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Komeito party, formerly a longtime ruling coalition ...

The foreign ministers of Japan and the Philippines agreed Thursday to strengthen bilateral security cooperation amid China's ...

Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have played a big part in preventing the use of nuclear ...

CHITA, Aichi -- The production of "fukumasu," or lucky boxes used to throw beans during the traditional Setsubun ritual, is ...

As the United States turns increasingly inward, the importance of strengthened cooperation between Japan and South Korea is ...

Twenty-two organizations in Nagasaki Prefecture including A-bomb survivor groups issued a statement of protest Jan. 14 over ...

The island of Miyajima, home to the World Heritage-listed Itsukushima Shrine, in this west Japan city saw a record 4.96 mill ...

A man was arrested Thursday for allegedly stabbing two men visiting his Tokyo apartment for forced eviction proceedings, ...