The annual cherry blossom season is expected to start in Tokyo on March 21, closely trailed by Japan's other regions ...

Asia shares were trading mostly lower Friday, tracking sharp Wall Street losses on a sell-off of technology-related stocks ...

Junya Ogawa was elected the new leader of the Centrist Reform Alliance (Chudo) on Feb. 13 and faces the urgent task of ...

KITA-KYUSHU—A trainee pilot who helped staff two passenger flights as part of his training has been arrested on suspicion of ...

Japanese police believe the two trends are part of the globalization of fraud crimes. Gangs from different countries, including Japan, are apparently working together to create huge bases for their ...

Japan’s crime rate rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, propelled by a record-breaking fraud wave and an increase in sexual offenses, the National Police Agency said Feb. 12.

Choi Ga-on of South Korea denied American Chloe Kim a historic three-peat ‌in the women's halfpipe snowboard at the Winter ...

Around 30 finless porpoises were filmed for the first time in waters in Tokyo Bay off Haneda Airport. The aerial footage, ...

Today is Valentine’s Day. But in Japan, it’s also said to be “Niboshi no hi” --literally “day of niboshi,” the latter being small, dried fish used in Japanese cooking to  make “dashi” soup stock.

Fallout from the Lower House election has resulted in the largest proportion of lawmakers opposing legalizing an optional dual-surname system for the first time in 12 years after a national election, ...

The government plans to formulate its first national strategy dedicated to enhancement of intelligence gathering and analysis ...

A 128-year-old wooden building will be remodeled into a one-guestroom hotel designed for railway buffs, offering them front-row views of trains coming and going at Ichinomoto Station here.