Water shows at the World Exposition in Osaka have been suspended through Friday after high levels of legionella bacteria were ...

Two major convenience store chains in Japan began selling government-released stockpiled rice at select stores in Tokyo and ...

Japanese police investigated more than 1,300 cases of stalking in 2024, the highest since a law criminalizing the act was ...

Nintendo Co. on Thursday released the Switch 2, its first new gaming console in more than eight years, with robust preorder ...

Japan's Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, departs for Brazil to promote ties between the two countries, which mark ...

South Korea's newly elected liberal president, Lee Jae Myung, is likely to pursue stable ties with Japan at least early in ...

Three stranded Taiwanese climbers were found safe on a mountain in Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday, police said, following ...

Two Japanese men were murdered in Dalian, northeastern China, in late May, with a Chinese man they did business with detained ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told a top Russian security official Wednesday that Pyongyang will "unconditionally support" ...

Former Yomiuri Giant and New York Yankee Hideki Matsui visited the home of Shigeo Nagashima on Wednesday to offer condolences ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako paid their respects to the war dead in Okinawa ahead of the 80th anniversary of ...

The number of births in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time in 2024, declining 5.7 percent from the previous year to ...