A former ruling party lawmaker received a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence, suspended for five years, for defrauding the ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw tests of newly developed reconnaissance and suicide attack drones earlier this week ...

Japanese figure skater Kaori Sakamoto places fifth in the short program at the world championships in Boston but stayed ...

Longtime Fuji Media Holdings Inc. executive Hisashi Hieda will step down from his role as managing adviser, the company says, ...

Japan has unveiled a plan to evacuate about 120,000 people from southern islets near Taiwan, regarded by China as its ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will start imposing next week an additional 25 percent tariff on all automobiles made ...

Recent elementary school starters aged 7 years old accounted for the highest proportion of pedestrians injured or killed in ...

Japan and Brazil adopts a five-year action plan to strengthen their strategic partnership amid rising geopolitical risks and trade tensions.

Japan's parliament enacted legislation to set new rules designed to prevent candidates from using inappropriate tactics, such ...

Strong winds intensified out-of-control wildfires in two western Japan prefectures, leaving at least eight buildings ...

Japan approves the introduction of accommodation taxes in nine cities and two prefectures from this fall, with more local ...

Japan has begun accepting Palestinians injured in the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani says, in its first such step since the launch of large-scale Israeli attacks on ...