The Shinto shrine is regarded by neighboring Asian countries such as South Korea and China as a symbol of Japan’s wartime ...

The missile was believed to have fallen outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, the Defense Ministry in Tokyo said.

Taipei says Beijing was trying to create a false impression that it controls waters east of Taiwan, where the drills were ...

A coach has gotten millions of views on social media by using parkour techniques to teach the elderly things such as better ...

Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a 54-year-old woman on suspicion of killing her 89-year-old mother at her home in the ...

Both airlines had raised the surcharges on the routes for tickets issued in July and August to a record ¥65,000 from ¥56,000 ...

Beijing – Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who died on Wednesday age 97, was never one to mince his words. When the four-volume selection ⁠of his speeches came out in 2011, they shocked readers with ...

Yasukuni Shrine has clarified that its new policy banning military-style clothing on its grounds does not apply to active-duty members. After receiving inquiries, including those from The Japan Times, ...

When Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state TV last week that he found it “very difficult” to reach the country’s supreme leader, it sparked fresh speculation about the whereabouts of Mojtaba ...

The major earthquake that hit Kumamoto Prefecture late last month is hitting the local tourism industry hard amid the peak summer holiday season. The Kumamoto Prefectural Government estimates that the ...

Newer fans, who have only discovered Japan’s national sport in the past few years, could be forgiven for thinking that rapid progress to the top of the banzuke is the norm for sumo’s biggest names.

Even as the U.S. and Japan have shown rare unity in moving to strengthen the yen, a fundamental tension between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi over the Bank of ...