Iwao Hakamata's elder sister called for public prosecutors to be barred from appealing court decisions granting retrials and ...

About half of patients are age 10 to 29, and the Japan Pediatric Society is calling on people to get vaccinated.

Momentum for a lasting peace has been building, with Tehran saying Friday that Hormuz is open for commercial shipping after ...

Former President Win Myint's pardon on Friday was the biggest concession yet by the country's post-coup leadership headed by ...

Iran reopened the strait following a separate U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement on Thursday by Israel and Lebanon.

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake, measuring an upper 5 on Japan’s shindo seismic intensity scale, struck northern Nagano Prefecture ...

The Liberal Democratic Party is worried the Japan Innovation Party's hawkish approach to revising the pacifist clause won't ...

Defense-related spending in the fiscal year through March 2027 would total ¥10.6 billion, approaching the gold standard 2% of ...

Tokyo will supply Australia with the first three of a planned fleet of 11 new warships in a deal that highlights the progress ...

U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle accused the government of going easy on Moscow ​as its war on Ukraine ...

Tokyo police have arrested the president of Linux Japan, an information technology service provider in the capital, on ...

At the IMF and World Bank spring meetings, some participants grumbled that U.S. officials were reluctant to discuss the ...