A bill to create a new system to attract foreign workers to Japan -- one that would allow revocation of permanent residence ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa on Saturday asked central Japan constituents how "we women can call ourselves ...

Seigo Nishioka was 13 years old the day the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. He survived that catastrophe ...

Cerezo Osaka eased to a 3-0 win at 10-man Avispa Fukuoka in the J-League first division on Saturday, ending their three-game ...

Enough potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide to kill some 160 to 250 people has gone missing from Osaka Metropolitan ...

A racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman against the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will be determined in the ...

A medical blunder in western Japan led to a young child having their permanent tooth pulled out, Hyogo Prefecture announced ...

LONDON (Kyodo) -- A stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning Japanese anime movie "Spirited Away" that premiered in Tokyo in ...

Former President Donald Trump is expected to address thousands of members of the National Rifle Association in Texas a day ...

A senior member of yakuza was arrested for allegedly stealing Pokemon cards near Tokyo in April, a case seen as an example of ...

The governor of Okinawa on Saturday criticized the U.S. ambassador to Japan's visit to two of its remote islands in the ...

Kotozakura, right, defeats Ura on the 7th day of the Summer Grand Sumo Touurnament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on May 18, ...