The Hayama Municipal Government in Kanagawa Prefecture announced April 2 that it will suspend its annual fireworks festival ...

The suicide of a cosmetics retail employee, then 25, was recognized by the Mita Labor Standards Inspection Office as ...

Fukushima Prefectural Police on April 3 served a fresh arrest warrant to a 36-year-old man on suspicion of kidnapping a minor ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced substantially higher tariff rates for all his country's trading partners. In ...

A beating lab-grown heart made from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells was recently shown to reporters for the first time ...

Cherry blossoms are almost in full flower in various locations across Kyoto Prefecture, with tourists from both Japan and ...

Japan's Ministry of Finance on April 4 released parts of government documents related to the tampering of public records in a controversial s ...

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani on Friday refused to comment on the prospect of other countries joining Japan, Britain and ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- French football club Reims said Friday they will play two friendly matches in Japan this summer.

Japan missed out on securing an automatic Olympic berth in men's curling as it fell to a 4-7 record in the round-robin st ...

South Korea's Constitutional Court is set to hand down a ruling Friday on whether to remove or reinstate Yoon Suk Yeol as ...