Perfume and candles ranked first and second, respectively, as gifts people in Japan do not want to receive for Christmas, ...

A record 7,119 teachers at public elementary, junior high, senior high and special needs schools across Japan took a leave of ...

The battle to sign coveted Japanese starting pitcher Roki Sasaki is heating up between Major League Baseball teams.

A Tokyo court on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison over his involvement in a ...

Former New York Yankees ace and new Yomiuri Giants signee Masahiro Tanaka pledged Wednesday to bounce back from his past four ...

Japan will relax visa application requirements for Chinese visitors, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Wednesday, in the ...

Police here failed to respond for months to multiple whistleblowing reports by an officer about the alleged illegality of its ...

More than 30 puppies of popular breeds such as toy poodles, believed to have been inside a dog kennel in the city of Chitose, ...

The revised Diet members' allowance law has been passed and will come into force in August 2025, requiring national ...

Flight voice recordings from a Japan Coast Guard plane involved in a fatal collision were released Wednesday, reinforcing the ...

The number of babies born in Japan in 2024 is expected to be only about 690,000, according to one expert's recent estimate, ...

TOKYO -- Only about 20% of people in Japan prepare "emergency toilets" that can be used without water, despite the fact that ...