Japan’s centenarian population has reached a record high as the country continues to maintain the world’s longest life expectancy – a milestone officials credit to healthy lifestyles and fewer fatal ...

Japan is on track to get its first female prime minister after the leading conservative party elected Sanae Takaichi as its new leader. Takaichi, the former economic security minister of Japan, beat ...

Japan could end up with its first female prime minister or its youngest leader in more than a century after a party leadership election on Saturday. The governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in nearly three years.

In a stunning diplomatic move, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has openly defied U.S. President Donald Trump’s call to ...