The liquidator for the religious group widely known as the Unification Church says victims of the organization in Japan can ...

Social media was flooded with spam and disinformation about a 7.7-magnitude quake that struck off Japan on Monday. NHK ...

It's job-hunting season for Japanese students graduating next March, and companies looking for just the right person have ...

A crowd of 126 Japanese lawmakers visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo for its spring festival on Wednesday. The shrine honors ...

A private-sector survey has found that studio apartment rents in central Tokyo surged in March to hit a record high for a ...

Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index set new intraday and closing highs on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump announced he ...

Four top candidates have begun their pitches to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations, as the international ...

Four people vying to become the next United Nations Secretary-General have begun pitching their policies. Hearings with the candidates began on Tuesday before representatives of member countries and ...

Japan's heatstroke alert system became operational for 2026 on Wednesday. The Ministry of the Environment and the Japan Meteorological Agency will issue an alert if the heat stress index is predicted ...

The head of the US Indo-Pacific Command has appealed for the deployment of more vessels in the region, in light of China's rapid naval buildup.

Japan's Prudential Life Insurance says it will extend a suspension of policy sales by another six months as it continues to ...

Japan's Transport Minister Kaneko Yasushi says four Japanese crew members stranded in the Persian Gulf have disembarked. He ...