Over 80% of accommodation providers in Osaka Prefecture are struggling to deal with suitcases abandoned by their guests, ...

A team of astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States headed to the International Space Station aboard a Sp ...

An extraordinary session of the Diet was convened Aug. 1, with newly elected House of Councillors members arriving at the ...

TOKYO -- Kazunari Ninomiya a member of the popular Japanese idol group "Arashi," appeared at Tokyo Dome on July 31 to throw the ceremonial first pitch of a baseball game between the Chiba Lotte ...

The Japanese government has yet to provide relief to people who suffered damage from air raids and other atrocities across ...

A Japanese national was assaulted at a subway station in Suzhou, eastern China and taken to the hospital, the Japanese Consul ...

The acquittal of a Japanese man who served seven years in prison for the 1986 murder of a junior high school student was ...

Officials in east Japan's Chiba Prefecture revealed July 31 that all four whales which had washed up on a beach in the city of Tateyama were ...

Japan's 18-year-old outside hitter Miku Akimoto will spend the next season on loan at Dresdner SC in Germany's top division, ...

Nintendo Co. said Friday its net profit in the three months through June jumped 18.6 percent from a year earlier to 96.03 ...

Nippon Steel Corp. on Friday said it expects to end the fiscal year through March in the red by about 40 billion yen ($265 ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday it posted a net loss of 857.69 billion yen ($5.8 billion) for the ...