Prosecutors on Friday issued a summary indictment against a ruling party staff member in charge of accounting for the party in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, alleging that he failed to properly ...

Thirty-three of Japan's 47 prefectural governments back revising a pact governing the U.S. forces in the country, a Kyodo News survey showed Saturday, underscoring widespread concerns associated with ...

Three men broke into a house in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, and robbed a couple early Saturday morning. According to police, a 76-year-old man and his 72-year-old wife were asleep in their bedroom on ...

More than 5,400 people died in Japan over the past 30 years due to severe stress and exhaustion caused by evacuation following earthquakes and other natural disasters, according to a recent tally by ...

With President-elect Donald Trump adding uncertainty around whether a TikTok ban will go into effect, the focus is now ...

Elon Musk's self-proclaimed persona as a top-class gamer took a thrashing on Friday, as video game enthusiasts mercilessly ...

Japan is likely to miss the fiscal discipline target it had aimed to achieve in the next fiscal year starting in April due partly to huge spending to fund stimulus measures, the government said. The ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering ...

Toyota Motor Corp is considering shifting some production at its central Japan home ground to other areas in a realignment ...

Seven-Eleven Japan Co plans to strengthen security at its convenience stores as more are being run by a single employee ...

Nearly all of the new film “September 5” takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the ...

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho will present his new film "Mickey 17" out of competition in Berlin next month, the city's ...