A record 36.78 million foreign nationals entered Japan in 2024, an increase of 42.4 percent over the previous year, according to preliminary figures. The Immigration Services Agency said Jan. 24 that ...

Chikara Sakaguchi, a former health minister and vice leader of the Komeito party, whose moral stand was pivotal in securing a landmark government apology for its treatment of leprosy patients in 2001, ...

MONTERREY, Mexico--Japan marked the 1,000th match in World Cup history with a commanding 4-0 win over Tunisia in Group F on Saturday, as Ayase Ueda scored twice to send the North Africans out. Hajime ...

A Meiji University-related start-up announced plans to begin Japan’s first clinical trial of transplanting organs from cloned pigs into human patients as early as 2028. PorMedTec, based in Kawasaki, ...

TOKYO/SINGAPORE--Japan will ‌receive a boost in Middle East crude supply ⁠this month as two ⁠more stranded Japanese-owned supertankers carrying Saudi oil were exiting the Strait of Hormuz on ⁠Tuesday, ...

A joint task force including the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced on April 7 the arrest of a Pakistani national on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Law by smuggling a ...

Amid heightened diplomatic tensions, two Japanese nationals were detained by Chinese customs authorities in May, one apparently over a suspected attempt to take rare earths out of the country despite ...

Officials who opened one of the largest fountains in the world in waters off Tokyo are banking on making a big splash with tourists despite concerns from politicians over its high price tag and ...

In a world first, Toyota Motor Corp. entered a race with a vehicle propelled by a superconducting motor that leverages the ultra-cold nature of liquid hydrogen fuel. The GR Corolla debuted at the ...

TAIPEI—The day after Li Chen-hsiu was sworn in as a member of Taiwan’s Legislature, she was questioned about whether she belonged — about her nationality, about her identity and ultimately about her ...

KAWASAKI—Three workers were killed, one was injured and another remains missing after a 500-ton counterweight and scaffolding collapsed during a crane-dismantling operation at a steel mill on April 7.

Japan national team manager Hajime Moriyasu expressed regret over Samurai Blue’s early exit from the World Cup but said the country one day could become the “best in the world.” The team received an ...