NAGOYA—The Olympic Council of Asia is attempting to quell complaints about lodging for athletes and officials at the Asian ...

The primary focus in Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet reshuffle was the fate of Yoshimasa Hayashi, a veteran lawmaker ...

A former Japanese Red Army faction member involved in a 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines jet has reportedly died in North ...

Poplar Publishing Co., a prominent producer of children’s books in Japan, has set up a subsidiary in India in a bid to break ...

YOKOHAMA—Nissan Motor Co. is seeing signs of recovery despite challenges in overseas markets and plans to drive growth ...

Toshio Tono spent decades determined to spread the truth about the horrors committed against U.S. prisoners of war in Japan in the final months of World War II.

Trailblazing singer and actor Akihiro Miwa, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki to become a fearless cultural icon, champion for the marginalized and tireless advocate for peace, has died. He ...

Japan’s government on Aug. 7 officially launched a contentious debate on capping its foreign population as a high-level working group convened for the first time to hash out a future immigration ...

HONG KONG--Lionel Messi made another conciliatory gesture to fans in Hong Kong and mainland China on Monday by releasing a video on social media to explain why he didn’t play in an exhibition match ...

UTSUNOMIYA—Police have arrested a Yokohama couple on suspicion of directing four teenagers to perpetrate a home invasion that left a 69-year-old woman dead and her two sons injured. The arrests of ...

Author Asako Yuzuki has pulled the publishing rights for her international best-selling novel “Butter” from Shinchosha Publishing Co., protesting the company’s handling of a discriminatory magazine ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration pledged to overhaul the budget compilation process to encourage what it says is much-needed investment that can finally propel Japan out of its economic ...