US Ambassador to Japan George Glass will attend memorial ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki marking the 80th anniversary of ...

Women have taken part for the first time in a traditional festival in a town in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

The South Korean government says it has begun dismantling loudspeakers used for propaganda broadcasts toward North Korea, as ...

The Liberal Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidates in last month's Upper House election say that Japan's main governing ...

East Japan Railway plans to raise fares by an average of 7.1 percent from next March in its first across-the-board price hike ...

The world is developing a taste for Japanese food, a trend that's helping suppliers carve out new markets across the globe. Exports reached a record high for the first six months of the year, driven ...

Two Chinese government ships reentered Japan's territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture early Monday, ...

Investors in Tokyo are offloading shares after US employment numbers on Friday missed expectations, signaling a slowdown in ...

The administration of US President Donald Trump is ending a tariff exemption for low-value imports. Starting August 29, ...

A dangerous heatwave is expected to continue gripping wide areas of Japan from the Tohoku region in the northeastern to the ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged tit-for-tat attacks as US President Donald Trump stepped up pressure for a truce. US special ...

Four men who died inside a manhole in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Saturday are believed to have succumbed to toxic ...