Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met senior officials from major ministries and agencies far less often during her ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Former Japanese Ambassador to China Hideo Tarumi, who created the concept of a "strategic and mutually ...

A charity event supporting people in the Gaza Strip through knitting was held at a temple in the Japanese capital Oct. 6.

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Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday, with the Nikkei stock index falling below the 70,000 line, tracking overnight Wall Street ...

Japanese agriculture minister Kazuo Yana was forced on Oct. 5 to apologize for and retract remarks in which he said that the ...

TATEBAYASHI, Gunma -- Three maintenance hole covers featuring the main characters from the TV anime "A Place Further than the ...

A team from Japan's comprehensive research institution Riken identified for the first time a protein that extends lifespan ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday told Okinawa Gov. Genta Koja that Japan intends to take preventive steps with the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday she has no intention of dismissing farm minister Kazuo Yana, despite growing pre ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 struck eastern Japan early Thursday, with shaking felt in Chiba Prefecture, ...

Japanese organic chemist Kenso Soai, who won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry with French researcher Henri Kagan, told ...