The Defense Ministry on Friday announced that it had signed an agreement with Nippon Steel to acquire the company’s former ...

For Taiwan, holding Penghu — a strategic cluster of 90 islands and islets — would allow its forces to resist a Chinese ...

The Tokyo District Court found Shinji Tanimoto and his wife, Shiori, guilty of earning profit from referring customers to ...

The earthquake-hit municipal library in the city of Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, is moving step by step toward reopening after ...

The Netflix series tries to destigmatize conversations about sex with unflinching honesty, but flattens the story in the ...

The Centrist Reform Alliance was supposed to have merged by now with the remaining elements of the Constitutional Democratic ...

Japan is right to support the ICC and its Japanese president. But support should not mean treating the institution as immune ...

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to introduce a system that automatically transcribes emergency calls and ...

This year marks the second-earliest start of the season, according to health ministry records dating back to 1999.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the disaster on Wednesday was caused by a glacial collapse that triggered a vast flow of icy ...

Major combat operations have been paused for weeks but there has been little progress toward a wider peace agreement between ...

The insurer, which has held off on adding to its Japanese government bond holdings over the past two years after unrealized ...