A heated exchange broke out in front of a mosque in this southwest Japan city in September after members of a conservative ...

Popular twin pandas at a zoo in Tokyo are set to be returned to China in late January, leaving none in Japan for the first ...

The Japanese government has launched a new department aimed at improving fiscal efficiency. It has been dubbed ...

A victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II has been identified as a 13-year-old girl through DNA testing ...

The Japanese government is considering putting an end to feed-in subsidies for new large-scale solar farms from fiscal 2027 ...

A fire at a sauna facility in central Tokyo that offers private rooms left a man and a woman dead on Monday, police and fire ...

Confusion and anger are spreading among students and their parents after university entrance exam prep school SS Gijuku ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting targeted a ...

Maki Takubo, the former mayor of this central Japan city who was toppled by the municipal assembly over academic fraud ...

Star Japan winger Kaoru Mitoma feels he is still far from his best despite showing positive signs in his return from a ...

Tokyo stocks ended mixed Monday, as heavyweight technology shares fell on concern over returns on huge investments in ...

A new glass-walled giraffe exhibition room was unveiled at Obihiro Zoo in the city of Obihiro, Hokkaido, on December 6. The ...