Shohei Ohtani became the first Major League Baseball player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season on Thursday i ...

Japan is enjoying a boom in visitor numbers and spending. Behind the scenes, however, tax evasion through abuse of ...

A-27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a woman's apartment in Osaka Prefecture by deducing the ...

One feared consequence of Japan's lowering of the age of adulthood to 18 in 2022 appears to have come true -- a rise in young ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's core consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in August from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.

The introduction of an optional separate surname system in Japan, which would allow Japanese couples to choose whether to ...

A shinkansen stopped on a route between Tokyo and northeastern Japan, the railway operator JR East said Thursday, with the ...

The assembly of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on Thursday unanimously adopted a no-confidence motion against Gov.

A Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds earl ...

Mie Prefectural Police on Sept. 18 arrested a 32-year-old Filipino factory worker on suspicion of abandoning the body of a ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's fund management body donated a total of 100 million yen (approx. $700,000) to the Liberal ...

The Bank of Japan began a two-day policy meeting Thursday amid growing expectations that the central bank would keep interest ...