Heavy rain pounded eastern Japan on Thursday and continued into early Friday, prompting the weather agency to issue a Level 5 warning, the highest on its scale, for downpours in more than one-third of ...

International talks on the sustainable management of Pacific bluefin tuna will resume online Tuesday, Japan's Fisheries Agency said Friday, after negotiations last month ended without an agreement due ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the far-eastern Kuril islands for the first time on Thursday, prompting a "strong" protest by Japan which also claims the territory. Russian-Japanese relations ...

Yosakoi Festival started Monday in the western Japanese city of Kochi, drawing about 18,000 dancers in 197 teams from inside and outside Kochi Prefecture, organizers of the three-day event said.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage regained his parliamentary seat on Friday in an election he triggered to bolster his position against allegations of financial impropriety, a strategy ‌that was ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering refraining from visiting the war-linked Yasukuni shrine to mark Saturday's anniversary of the end of World War II, sources familiar with the ...

The Strait of Hormuz is "under Iran's control and management", the recently appointed head of Iran's Basij paramilitary unit said on Thursday, a day ‌after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United ...

Police in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, have arrested a 54-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of secretly filming inside the bathhouse of a hot spring facility. Police said Takayuki Okamoto is ...

Police in Misaki town, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of stomping on his 80-year-old mother, with whom he lived, causing her death. Police said Yoshiki ...

Police in Chikusei City, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 46-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of setting fire to the home where her parents lived, causing it to burn down completely. The ...

Typhoon No. 15 lost strength and was downgraded to a tropical depression Wednesday over the Sea of Japan after making landfall the previous night in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, the weather ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday decided to leave the decision on a proposal to cut the consumption tax on food to its tax policy chief after the idea faced opposition from fiscal ...