TOKYO -- A man who "confessed" to shooting the commissioner general of the National Police Agency (NPA) in 1995 but was never ...

The mayor of this town has explained that it had no choice but to erect a black screen blocking a view of Japan's iconic ...

Ukraine hopes to sign a security cooperation agreement with Japan sometime before a NATO summit meeting in July, a senior ...

A flat-rate tax deduction decided at the end of last year as a measure to offset Japan's high commodity prices is set to come ...

The Seibu Lions halted their season-worst losing streak at eight with a 6-5 come-from-behind win Saturday over the Orix B ...

Japan's labor ministry is preparing to question businesses on the practice of making customer service employees such as ...

On a small island off Japan's northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats.

Japan is bracing for a swarm of stink bugs that can attack tree fruits, with an unusually large number of prefectures already ...

Paintings of Mount Fuji decorating a public bathhouse in this city's Higashisumiyoshi Ward were recently redone for the first ...

TOKYO -- Fiscal 2023 saw 144 incidents in which users of Japan's private railways assaulted station staff and train crew, the ...

The United Nations' top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza ...

Needing one more win to repeat as champions of Japanese basketball, the Ryukyu Golden Kings must sweep the Hiroshima ...