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

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

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

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

One of the largest shareholders of Fuji Media Holdings is demanding that the network establish a third-party committee to ...

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

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, ...

Kinuko Iwamoto, 78, the former chancellor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University arrested over having the university illegally ...

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 295 kilometers above Mercury’s night side before passing ...

A pair of Tancho, or red-crowned cranes, perform a dance of love in the village of Tsurui in Hokkaido. The elegant birds, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation wall of pharaonic Queen Hatshepsut’s valley temple in Luxor ...