More than 20 million foreign visitors arrived in Japan from January to June 2025, a new high for the first six months of the ...

A women's professional golf tournament in northeastern Japan will be played without spectators after a bear sighting on the ...

The world's largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., will start construction of its second plant ...

Political parties in Japan have long faced criticism for fielding celebrity candidates in House of Councillors elections, ...

More than 1 million low-income households -- most of them working families with children -- who depend on the nation's publ ...

Protests and events against President Donald Trump's controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to ...

The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the ...

A Japanese court on Thursday ordered a local government to pay a former assistant nurse about 31 million yen ($209,000) in ...

Onosato got back on the winning track Thursday at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament after Hoshoryu's injury withdrawal left ...

Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is this August releasing a home-use toilet which measures the amount, hardness and other ...

A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma Inc. who was detained in Beijing and charged with spying has been sentenced to 3 1/2 ...

A couple who allegedly left their three young children unattended at their home here for more than six hours were arrested ...