Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, attended the 41st World Veterinary Association Congress ...

Eight years ago, Yuriko Koike became the first woman to lead Tokyo, beating her male predecessor. She won her third term as ...

Despite the United Nations calling on Japan to abolish the death penalty, an overwhelming majority of the Japanese population ...

Japan went from watching to fully participating in a large-scale joint military exercise hosted annually by the United States ...

Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a ...

MANILA—Japan agreed to begin discussing the export of its retiring destroyers equipped with anti-ship missiles and other ...

NANTAN, Kyoto Prefecture—Police here rearrested a man on suspicion of murder after he admitted to strangling his adopted son ...

Infinity Castle” film trilogy concluded its official theatrical run in Japan on April 9, leaving behind numerous box office ...

Storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel from power plants are approaching full capacity across Japan, as the government’s ...

FIFA, the international soccer governing body, is trying to deal with a persistent and ugly issue as it nears the home ...

Beloved hitmaker Studio Ghibli Inc. will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. while maintaining its ...

A major Japanese oil company has acknowledged obtaining petroleum from Russia for the first time since the Strait of Hormuz ...