The number of children under 15 years old in Japan is 13.66 million, 350,000 fewer than in 2024 and the lowest on record, the ...

NAGOYA—Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura said Oct. 1 he will run in the Lower House election as a candidate of the Conservative ...

Ryuho Okawa, the founder and CEO of the powerful religious organization Happy Science, has died, according to sources close ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced on Dec. 10 that it plans to introduce walk-through gates within the next decade, ...

Bruce Springsteen is taking his act back on the road with a politically charged, openly anti-Trump tour across the United ...

Japan received reassurances of continued close ties with its U.S. ally including confirmation that a security treaty covers ...

Asian shares advanced Friday following modest gains on Wall Street, while oil prices rose as efforts to end the Iran war ...

Japan’s most decorated Winter Olympics athlete Miho Takagi may soon be adding the nation’s People’s Honor Award to her ...

The government will provide up to 92.9 billion yen ($678 million) in subsidies to major semiconductor manufacturer Kioxia ...

The education ministry on May 22 said a Kyoto high school’s field trip that ended in tragedy in Okinawa Prefecture not only breached safety rules but also broke the law on political neutrality.

U.S. President Donald Trump is clearly a stickler when it comes to image, but he seems to be ignoring that quality in a ...

Amid howls of local protest, U.S. Marines test-fired a long-range mobile rocket launcher at the foot of Mount Fuji for the ...