North Korean leader Kim Jong may be rushing to develop a rocket capable of carrying a military reconnaissance satellite as a ...

Japan's House of Representatives has passed a bill to amend the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and other ...

A man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing sodium cyanide from the laboratory of a western Japanese university that ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Shingo Kunieda, who retired last year from his legendary wheelchair tennis playing career, has embarked on a ...

Personal data leaks in Japan jumped some 70 percent to a record 13,279 cases in fiscal 2023, a draft annual report by a ...

"I think sighing is a form of psychological harassment"; "Unintentional sighing is power harassment." Posts like these on social media in Japan are describing unwelcome sighing as, among other things, ...

Some Kyushu Shinkansen line services in southwestern Japan will adopt dynamic pricing for advance tickets after a recent ...

A senior official of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on May 28 admitted to getting tax breaks on donations to an ...

Bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka may be suspended from Tuesday evening due to heavy rain forecasts in central ...

Holes have been found in a large black screen set up by a central Japan town to block a scenic view of Mt. Fuji after ...

Shohei Ohtani says he lost sleep after his translator was accused of stealing millions of dollars from the two-way baseball ...

The rate of antibodies found in people in Japan who have been infected with the coronavirus has passed 60% for the first time ...