The Sapporo District Court sentenced a 37-year-old farmer to 6 1/2 years in prison on Oct. 29 for setting fire to a mosque ...

All Nippon Airways Co. said Friday that personal data, including passport numbers, was leaked from about 37,800 customers ...

Gunma Prefectural Police announced Oct. 29 that errors in written driver's license tests for foreign nationals had resulted ...

Japan's iconic Mt. Fuji got its first snowcap of the season on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, with radar and ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Friday stressed the need to stabilize inflation at around 2 percent, signaling that the ...

A new chapter has been written in the history of shogi. Tomoka Nishiyama, holder of the Hakurei title, will become the first ...

TANABE, Wakayama -- A shrine in this western Japan city has unveiled enormous New Year's "ema" votive plaques for 2027 ...

The Japanese major weekly Sunday Mainichi will suspend publication next April, ending its more than 100-year history, its ...

The Uniqlo clothing chain on Friday opened a revamped global flagship shop in Shanghai amid sluggish personal spending in ...

A book with photos and illustrations chronicling the growth of Punch, a Japanese macaque at a zoo in eastern Japan who ...

An exhibition aiming to raise awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through the history of the former ...

Legislation to establish a "second capital" to serve as a backup for Tokyo's core functions and decentralize economic ...