At least a third of the boys and half of the girls in one class at a national elementary school here had been involved in ...

South Korea's Constitutional Court said it will hand down a ruling Friday regarding whether to remove or reinstate impeached ...

Six months into office, the odds appear stacked against Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Yet he has enjoyed what political ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested without a warrant on suspicion of abandoning a high school student's corpse at his home in the ...

Cooperation between Japan and the United States is critical for maintaining stability in Asia. However, concerns have arisen ...

A Mie Prefectural Assembly member has revealed that she has received death threats after calling for equipping public ...

Japanese X (formerly Twitter) was recently abuzz with stories about unexpected periods -- a reality for many women -- with ...

One international airline operating in Japan sends apparently unnecessary and privacy-invasive medical forms to disabled ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nuclear deterrence should not be the "final form of security," a Japanese forum said Monday in its ...

After a community event in Japan's central Tokai region, attendees at a get-together kicked off the proceedings in high ...

Seven people were injured but conscious after a car barreled through a busy area of downtown Nagoya, central Japan, on ...

By David McNeill I first interviewed Shiori Ito in 2017, shortly after a press conference in which she had accused a ...