Japan's summer holiday travel rush got underway Saturday, with many shinkansen bullet train services and flights fully booked ...

Japanese table tennis player Tomokazu Harimoto reached the men's singles quarterfinals at the WTT Champions in front of home ...

Nagasaki on Saturday warned of the intensifying threat of nuclear war as it marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic ...

Japanese pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano earned his ninth win of his major league rookie season after throwing seven innings of ...

Dutch football club Ajax said Friday they have signed Japan defender Ko Itakura from German side Borussia Monchengladbach.

Japanese character "Npochamu," marketed as a goofy and rotund yoghurt fairy, is aiming to capitalize on its popularity ...

Japan's National Police Agency has released data on traffic accidents resulting in deaths or serious injuries caused by ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reiterated Friday his intention to stay on as Japan's leader, defying calls to step down as the ...

Many state-of-the-art robots including humanoids, robot dogs and bee-shaped flying machines were showcased at an ...

A White House official on Friday confirmed that imports from Japan, like those from the European Union, will be exempt from tariff stacking, meaning the United States will not add a new 15 percent rat ...

A man serving as principal of a public junior high school in Yokohama is alleged to have surreptitiously filmed an upskirt video of a woman using his smartphone while on a train, the city's board of e ...

The Japanese and South Korean governments are arranging for South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to visit Japan late this ...