A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a woman to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for injuring eight students ...

Tokyo stocks climbed sharply Friday morning, with the Nikkei index topping the 40,000 line for the first time in five months, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump could extend his administration's 90-day pause on so-called reciprocal tariffs, set to expire on ...

Russia's ambassador to Japan will attend an annual peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in the ...

Japan's education ministry plans to restrict living expenses support for doctoral students to Japanese nationals only, a ...

Yuko Arimori, who won two Olympic marathon medals in the 1990s, was selected Wednesday as president of the Japan Association ...

A Japanese district court sentences a U.S. Marine Corps member stationed in Okinawa Prefecture to seven years in prison over ...

TOKYO - The number of mental disorder cases recognized as work-related in Japan rose by 172 in fiscal 2024 to 1,055, marking ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 hit Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in southwestern Japan on ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party suffered a record-low result in Sunday's Tokyo assembly election, ...

The Japan Tourism Agency has urged the Japanese arm of online travel agency Agoda Company Pte. to improve its business ...

Boy and girl scouts in Kyoto lent a helping hand to harvest "Ofuku Ume," a type of Japanese plum believed to bring good luck ...