Richard Armitage, a former U.S. deputy secretary of state known for his close connections with Japan, has died at the age of ...

India is considering adopting the next-generation shinkansen bullet train being developed by East Japan Railway Co. for a ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and the head of Japan's largest labor union agree to work together to raise wages in Japan to ...

Japan's defense-related spending for fiscal 2025 is expected to total about 9.9 trillion yen ($70 billion), equivalent to 1.8 percent of gross domestic product three years earlier, Defense Minister ...

Japan has taken a major step toward revising the country's retrial system, which has been criticized as making the process of overturning a wrongful conviction excessively lengthy.

Rory McIlroy completed his career Grand Slam with a birdie on the first playoff hole against Justin Rose at the Masters ...

How a focus on innovation over tradition in sake-brewing is leading the brewer of Dassai sake on a journey to the Moon.

A court has sentenced a man to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for abusing rabbits on an island in western ...

The population of Japanese nationals stood at 120.3 million as of October 2024, down a record 898,000 from a year earlier, a ...

Japanese national basketball team standout Yuki Kawamura wraps up his NBA rookie season with 12 points, five assists and five ...

A Japanese hospital says it has completed a clinical test to transplant induced pluripotent stem cells that produce insulin to treat a patient with type 1 diabetes, in a step that could ease the ...

Around 119,000 people visited the World Exposition in Osaka on its opening day, according to the organizer, with long lines ...