More and more women are leaving the regional communities where they were born and flooding into the Tokyo area. This is the ...

Naomi Osaka’s second-round match at the Australian Open could not possibly have started in a worse way. All of 21 minutes in, ...

Makers of shochu in Kagoshima Prefecture are using various measures to attract new people to the distilled liquor, including ...

Negotiators reached a phased deal on Wednesday to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the U.S. and Qatar ...

Unprovoked anger is believed to be the motive of the suspect in the stabbing of two students at a fast-food restaurant in ...

Police and the Self-Defense Forces are expected to be required to obtain prior approval from an envisaged independent organ ...

A man, who was arrested on suspicion of slapping a female employee at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, was angry that he had missed ...

There is a long way to go for Japan and China to improve bilateral relations, even after a delegation of Japanese Diet ...

A former MUFG Bank employee has been arrested on suspicion of stealing 20 kilograms of gold bullion worth about ¥260 million ...

Japan-based space startup ispace, Inc.’s Resilience lunar lander was launched on a journey toward the moon from the Kennedy ...

About 50 worshippers attended a Shinto purification ritual at Uto Shrine on Dec. 28, burning dolls and other sacred items to ...

Spending by foreign visitors to Japan exceeded 8 trillion yen for the first time in 2024, reaching 8.1395 trillion yen, ...