YAMAGATA--A film featuring secretly recorded interviews with detainees at an immigration facility in Ibaraki Prefecture sheds ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. filed an application with the government on Jan. 23 to raise electricity rates for households by an ...

A scandal at Mitsubishi Electric Corp. involving fraudulent testing dating to the 1980s has already turned up nearly 200 ...

All four presidential candidates of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan support legalizing same-sex marriage, a ...

SEOUL--North Korea has poured up to $1.6 billion (about 231.2 billion yen) into its nuclear development program over the last ...

Driven by the weak yen, Japan's economic output produced its lowest percentage on record in the global economy last year, ...

Nineteen people were taken to hospitals after a pungent odor spread at the Ginza Six commercial complex in downtown Tokyo ...

Convenience store chain operators are now focusing on compact, unstaffed shops that emphasize quality as the number of their ...

First-year high school students climbed to third place in reading comprehension in the latest global aptitude survey, a ...

Phone fans in Japan don’t have to dig as deep into their pockets, with a new survey showing that they sell for about 20 ...

The Idemitsu Maru oil tanker arrived off the coast of Nagoya Port on May 25, becoming the first Japan-bound vessel of its ...

Cyclists were involved in 23.3 percent of all traffic accidents in Japan in 2022, the highest rate on record, according to ...