OSAKA--The central government and Kumamoto Prefecture both appealed an Osaka District Court ruling that expanded the ...

STOCKHOLM--The United States and China have agreed to work on extending a deadline for new tariffs on each other after two ...

Amid the shoplifting epidemic at drugstores across Japan, police have released guidelines aimed at eradicating the organized ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime ...

Japanese authorities spent 11.7 trillion yen ($73.5 billion) intervening in foreign exchange markets over the past ‌month to ...

The Japan Fair Trade Commission will issue a warning to Nissin Food Products Co. on suspicion of violating the Anti-Monopoly ...

A man whose heavily edited news video led to a surge in animosity toward Kurds living in Japan said he was frustrated by ...

The Ground Self-Defense Force for the first time showcased its long-range missile launcher vehicle designed to hit enemy ...

Kavi Patel, an engineer from New Jersey, said he was glad he included the humble ramen on his tour of Japan, along with more ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 6 was expected to bring heavy rain and violent winds to Okinawa Prefecture on June 1 before veering ...

The government is expected to soon approve a supplementary budget of about 3 trillion yen ($18.8 billion) and submit it to the Diet. Even if it is meant to protect the daily lives of the public as ...

BANGKOK--A blast on Sunday at a building in northeastern Myanmar said to have been storing explosives for mining has killed ...