TOKYO -- A man who "confessed" to shooting the commissioner general of the National Police Agency (NPA) in 1995 but was never ...

OSAKA -- Permanent residents of Japan on May 23 slammed a provision in a new bill that would allow revocation of permanent ...

The mayor of this town has explained that it had no choice but to erect a black screen blocking a view of Japan's iconic ...

On a small island off Japan's northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats.

The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, was reinstalled atop the cathedral's ...

Japan's labor ministry is preparing to question businesses on the practice of making customer service employees such as ...

Keita Imamura dropped a team-high 15 points and Ryuichi Kishimoto added 14 as defending champions the Ryukyu Golden Kings ...

A flat-rate tax deduction decided at the end of last year as a measure to offset Japan's high commodity prices is set to come ...

The United Nations' top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza ...

The Biden administration announced on Friday an additional $275 million in military aid for Ukraine as Kyiv struggles to hold ...

Exclusive Summer Grand Sumo Tournament capsule toys, miniature trinkets in plastic capsules available from vending machines, ...

Japan is bracing for a swarm of stink bugs that can attack tree fruits, with an unusually large number of prefectures already ...