Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) is set to establish an expert panel to discuss ways to use foreign workers in the ...

The municipal assembly in this Kyoto Prefecture city adopted a written opinion on Sept. 10 calling for the Japanese ...

On the solemn mountaintop in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture, a sacred Buddhist site popular with inbound visitors to Japan, a walk ...

The Osaka Regional Taxation Bureau identified widespread income underreporting by religious corporations operating temple ...

Twenty-five years later, the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are still remembered as among the most important historic events in ...

Mt. Fuji's climbing season ended on Thursday, with foreigners accounting for 32 percent of climbers during the season that ...

A new five-year integrated bachelor's and master's program at the University of Tokyo teaching all courses in English will ...

A town assemblyman on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido said Thursday he has decided to quit after violating loca ...

Men's basketball kicked off competitive action at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday, ahead of the opening ceremony on ...

Japan's restaurant industry has begun its annual "tsukimi" (moon-viewing) sales season, now an autumn fixture. Companies are ...

Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a New York attorney who has been a leading advocate for ...

South Korea's spy agency has said that even if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter has an older brother, she would be ...