A gold-plated iron knife and armor fragments, believed to have been made with advanced 5th-century techniques, have been ...

Nippon Ishin (the Japan Innovation Party) lawmaker Kaoru Nishida is suspected of unauthorized use of supporter names in the ...

BUDAPEST (Kyodo)-- Japan's Dota Arai said Wednesday he will not let his defeat "go to waste" after being outclassed by ...

Sueichi Kido, 85, officially stepped down as secretary general of Japan's Nobel Peace Prize-winning atomic bomb survivors ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday ruled out dissolving the powerful House of Representatives for now, ensuring that ...

A male care worker was arrested by Osaka Prefectural Police on June 18 on suspicion of penetrative sexual assault of two ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Thursday visited Hiroshima Prefecture to pay their respects to atomic bomb ...

Tokyo stocks snapped a three-day winning streak Thursday, as concerns grew over intensifying tensions in the Middle East ...

A government plan to give cash handouts to all individuals in Japan is nothing more than an electioneering scheme that will ...

Emperor Naruhito met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Imperial Palace here on June 18, during the ...

Japan will send two Self-Defense Forces airplanes to East Africa for a possible operation to evacuate its nationals from the ...

A total of 701 instructors and researchers on fixed-term contracts at Japan's national universities had their job contracts ...