Masahiro Nakai, a popular TV host who was a member of the former pop group SMAP and is embroiled in a sexual misconduct ...

The average price of new condominiums released last year in central Tokyo topped 100 million yen ($639,000) for the second ...

Facial recognition ticket gates will be introduced Friday for some Keisei Electric Railway Co. express trains linking ...

Ozeki Hoshoryu handed overnight leader Kinbozan his second defeat of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday, but the ...

No stranger to the devastation caused by natural disasters, Los Angeles Dodgers marquee signing Roki Sasaki voiced his ...

The government on Thursday retained its assessment that the Japanese economy is recovering moderately, expressing a more ...

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) announced on Jan. 22 that a municipal road in Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, has sunk by ...

Shiki himself played baseball and was inducted into the Japanese hall of fame in a special berth. This poet of the Meiji era ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world's thirst for fossi ...

Nissan Motor Co. said Wednesday it has abandoned a plan to produce a small electric vehicle model at its Mississippi assembly ...

The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its policy rate to 0.5 percent from the current 0.25 percent in a two-day meeting ...

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.