With distrust being most prominent among younger people, 55 percent of voters said they do not trust politics, outnumbering ...

Playing catch-up with rivals who have a head start, the leader in the nation’s minivehicle market plans to release its first ...

Taku Ueno buys beef from America, olive oil from Spain and tomatoes from Italy to stock his supermarkets south of Tokyo, ...

SINGAPORE--Asia shares slipped on Tuesday while oil prices extended losses, after threats from the U.S. for an “economic ...

Tokyo police on July 6 arrested a 15-year-old boy who has admitted to using AI-powered ChatGPT to build a program that forcibly deleted 46,000 accounts on anime streaming service “Bandai Channel,” ...

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi broke with convention by calling for a national debate on whether nuclear weapons should play a role in Japan’s defense. “For Japan, it’s a difficult issue to discuss ...

A major earthquake that registered a maximum seismic intensity of 7 rocked Kumamoto Prefecture at 4:27 p.m. on July 28, causing casualties, damaging or destroying infrastructure and disrupting ...

MOSCOW—Russia introduced a ban on diesel exports on Wednesday as part of a raft of ‌measures to support the domestic fuel market after systematic Ukrainian drone attacks ⁠on oil refineries triggered ...

Ambulances were dispatched for 3,454 emergency calls across the Tokyo metropolitan area on scorching-hot July 21, the highest single-day total since statistics began in 1963, the Tokyo Fire Department ...

Temperatures surged to the 40-degree range in central Japan on July 21 for the first time in Japan this year, as the nation continued to bake following the end of the rainy season. Gujo, Gifu ...

Prudential Life Insurance Co.’s massive employee fraud scandal continues spreading, revealing another 125 victims and an additional 790 million yen ($4.82 million) in financial damages on July 24. The ...

SINGAPORE--A rare joint U.S.-Japan intervention has raised the stakes on traders betting against the yen, but analysts are doubtful speculators will be kept at bay without tighter monetary policy. The ...