Tokyo police are warning residents not to be taken in by fraudsters posing as police officers after a dramatic surge in cases ...

Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate change monitoring satellite on its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final ...

SHIRAHAMA, Wakayama Prefecture-- Thousands of fans bid a teary farewell to a family of four giant pandas heading back to ...

Eleven individuals, including three Japanese nationals, were sentenced to prison here over chemical pollution caused by a ...

The commander of U.S. Forces Japan said the recent decision by the Self-Defense Forces to establish a joint operations ...

With glittering disco balls rotating overhead, throngs of partiers danced to the high-energy pulsating beat, including a ...

A man who sexually assaulted and murdered eight suicidal females after falsely promising to die with them was executed on ...

Shohei Ohtani led off the game with his 29th home run and also hit an RBI triple, and Freddie Freeman stretched as he fell ...

Yuri, the cherished pet dog of the imperial family, passed away on June 23 from old age, the family’s aides announced. She ...

Sohei Kamiya insists that he and his rising Sanseito political party are not encouraging hatred and discrimination against ...

A leading sake brewer has produced the traditional Japanese beverage using only foreign-harvested rice in time for the Osaka ...

This happened during a reporting trip to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, sometime in the early 2000s, before ...