Following the spread on social media of a video showing a student acting violently toward another student at a municipal ...

Japan's snap general election is likely to be held on Feb. 8, with official campaigning starting from Jan. 27, senior members ...

About 1,200 people joined a Jan. 11 anti-discrimination march in this city just north of Tokyo, where foreign nationals make ...

Injury-hampered yokozuna Onosato survived a close call against former sekiwake Takanosho to improve to 4-1 at the New Year ...

Japan's main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Komeito party, formerly a longtime ruling coalition ...

Twenty-two organizations in Nagasaki Prefecture including A-bomb survivor groups issued a statement of protest Jan. 14 over ...

As the United States turns increasingly inward, the importance of strengthened cooperation between Japan and South Korea is ...

The foreign ministers of Japan and the Philippines agreed Thursday to strengthen bilateral security cooperation amid China's ...

Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have played a big part in preventing the use of nuclear ...

CHITA, Aichi -- The production of "fukumasu," or lucky boxes used to throw beans during the traditional Setsubun ritual, is ...

The Japan Rugby Football Union has officially launched its bid to host the 2035 Rugby World Cup, looking to repeat the ...

The island of Miyajima, home to the World Heritage-listed Itsukushima Shrine, in this west Japan city saw a record 4.96 mill ...