Lacking support from voters and the opposition bloc, the government and ruling coalition parties have abandoned plans to ...

Operations on sections of Tokyo’s Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines will be suspended on April 19 and 20 due to scheduled work ...

SHANGHAI--A Chinese man who stabbed to death a Chinese female bus attendant and injured a Japanese mother and her child at a ...

The new U.S. ambassador to Japan arrived in Tokyo on Friday and said he is optimistic that his country and its key Asian ally ...

A record number of pupils and students died by suicide in 2024 while the total number of suicides decreased to the ...

A cherry blossom viewing party held here on March 30 was not a typical “hanami” event, given its theme of “avoiding death.” ...

Japan does not manipulate the currency market to weaken the yen, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato told parliament on Friday, countering accusations from U.S. President Donald Trump that Japan ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission will soon issue warnings to 15 luxury hotels in Tokyo over their cartel-like behavior that ...

Although more female civil servants occupy senior positions in major Japanese cities, around 60 percent of them are assigned ...

KYOTO—Researchers have safely transplanted nerve cells generated from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the brains of ...

The United States and Japan need to work together to align their defense forces in the face of an increasingly assertive ...

Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with the U.S., the Finance Ministry ...