Three major Japanese airports will introduce new electronic stands from April to streamline immigration and customs checks, ...

The number of child abuse reports Japan's child welfare centers responded to reached a record-high 225,509 in fiscal 2023, ...

The Kyoto city assembly approves sharply raising the lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations in the ...

A Japanese court ordered that the Unification Church be dissolved, following a request from the central government, a source ...

Iwao Hakamata, 89, who was acquitted in a retrial over the 1966 murder of a family of four in central Japan, has been awarded ...

Japan, a winner of silver and bronze medals in women's curling at the past two Winter Olympics, will take one last shot at an ...

Visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meet with Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako as Japan hosts ...

In the wake of the rescue of two Japanese teens who had been lured into working for scam syndicates in Myanmar, concerns are ...

The Osaka High Court becomes the fifth high court in Japan to rule that the country's lack of legal recognition of same-sex ...

"Butter," the cult Japanese bestseller by Asako Yuzuki inspired by the real-life case of a gourmet-turned-serial killer who ...

Children and parents gathered at a multipurpose community center in a town on the island of Shodoshima in Kagawa Prefecture ...

The amount of activity by Chinese vessels near the Senkaku Islands is "clearly escalating," Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi ...