Finding time for a cigarette during breaks at work has never been harder for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, known to ...

A former employee of MUFG Bank was arrested Tuesday over the alleged theft of valuables from customers' safe deposit boxes, ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck southwestern Japan on Monday, with no immediate reports of injury or damage, and ...

As Japan on Jan. 15 marks five years since its first confirmed case of COVID-19, government data show that over 70 million ...

Nippon Steel Corp. says it "remains the only partner" for United States Steel Corp., vowing to continue pursuing its purchase ...

The father of a 30-year-old woman accused of murdering of a man found decapitated in a Sapporo hotel in 2023 pleads not ...

The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan exceeded 10,000 for the first time in 11 years in 2024 as businesses faced a ...

Naomi Osaka wins her Australian Open first-round match against Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia and then sends her best wishes to ...

Japan's current account surplus expanded 54.5 percent from a year earlier to 3.35 trillion yen ($21.3 billion) in November, ...

North Korea has fired a projectile toward the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military said Tuesday. Last week, North Korean ...

Residents of an area in southwestern Japan rocked by a strong earthquake late Monday voiced anxiety as the seismic event ...

Senior Japanese ruling coalition lawmakers meet with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing to deliver a personal letter from ...