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

There seems to be no end to social media-based investment and romance scams in Mie Prefecture. According to prefectural ...

Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi turned 80 Thursday, more than four years after she was jailed following a ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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