An unusual mix of stories about alienation, feminism, cats and coffee shops is charming foreign audiences as a boom in ...

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Friday she held online talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, ...

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have wrapped up a three-day Washington summit that was heavy on pomp but light on ...

A 25-year-old man was arrested on the spot on Saturday for allegedly throwing his two daughters off the balcony of his ...

Japan's 15-year-old sensations Mizuho Hasegawa and Izuru Nagahara won the skateboarding park events on Friday as the host ...

Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume talks on its nuclear program in seven days if the United States ...

A major Japan-U.S. joint drill to start in October is expected to involve the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's long-range ...

Videos falsely portraying foreigners as stealing metal from railway tracks in Japan have spread widely on the country's ...

Erina Honda, 11, passed Grade 1 of the Eiken English test. It is a very hard test. The level is like advanced university ...

The Hitachiota Municipal Government in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, will launch a new initiative from October that ...

TOKYO -- Companies and local governments in Japan are increasingly introducing "grandchild leave," which can be used to ...

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