Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday defended his party's plan to distribute cash handouts as a quick way to help ...

HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- The mayor of Hiroshima said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump "does not understand the reality ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to 30 years in prison for stabbing three employees, one of them to ...

Visitors to Osaka Expo were treated to a dance recital by mascot characters from various countries in a recent event ...

KASHIHARA, Nara -- "Street Fighter" game characters are promoting the Asuka-Fujiwara archaeological sites in west Japan's ...

The Japanese government has formulated a "zero illegal overstay plan" to enforce the return of foreigners without visa status by strengthening measures. This move may facilitate disregard to human ...

Aryna Sabalenka joked that she'd love it if the upsets at Wimbledon would stop, which makes sense, given that she is ranked ...

Shohei Ohtani reached 30 homers for the fifth straight season, hitting a fourth-inning drive after fouling a pitch off the ...

A 50-year-old man who was arrested after allegedly fatally stabbing a colleague at a law firm in Tokyo's bustling Ikebukuro ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit the Tokara Islands in southwestern Japan on Wednesday, an area that has ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito said Wednesday that he will honor thousands of Japanese prisoners of World War II who were held under harsh con ...