The National Police Agency has drawn up a restructuring plan that would create a new bureau to strengthen its response to ...

Japan and China accused each other of airspace violations around the Senkaku Islands off Okinawa Prefecture in the East China ...

TOKYO/SINGAPORE--Japan’s second-largest shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) said it is carefully assessing the impact ...

Japan’s popularity as a travel destination continues to climb, as October saw the most visitors—3.31 million—for a single ...

A driver’s license is no longer required for motorized kick scooters, although people under the age of 16 will be banned from riding them.

Komusubi Wakatakakage took another major step on the comeback trail from a severe knee injury suffered three years ago, ...

There’s a lot of head scratching going on over Funai Electric Co., whose bankruptcy proceedings started after it was sold to ...

Tokyo tax authorities have ordered online financial giant SBI Holdings Inc. to pay an estimated 200 million yen ($1.3 million ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--Have sheet of paper, will fly. That simple philosophy reflects Takuo Toda’s obsession with making paper planes and seeing how long they stay up in the air. His ...

Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of Seven-Eleven Japan and widely regarded as ‌the father of Japan's convenience ⁠store industry ...

OTSU--Schools are no better at protecting children from bullying now than a decade ago, the father of a boy who took his own ...

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