Police and the Self-Defense Forces are expected to be required to obtain prior approval from an envisaged independent organ ...

A man, who was arrested on suspicion of slapping a female employee at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, was angry that he had missed ...

There is a long way to go for Japan and China to improve bilateral relations, even after a delegation of Japanese Diet ...

A former MUFG Bank employee has been arrested on suspicion of stealing 20 kilograms of gold bullion worth about ¥260 million ...

Japan-based space startup ispace, Inc.’s Resilience lunar lander was launched on a journey toward the moon from the Kennedy ...

Unprovoked anger is believed to be the motive of the suspect in the stabbing of two students at a fast-food restaurant in ...

One of the largest shareholders of Fuji Media Holdings is demanding that the network establish a third-party committee to ...

About 50 worshippers attended a Shinto purification ritual at Uto Shrine on Dec. 28, burning dolls and other sacred items to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation wall of pharaonic Queen Hatshepsut’s valley temple in Luxor ...

Kinuko Iwamoto, 78, the former chancellor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University arrested over having the university illegally ...

A pair of Tancho, or red-crowned cranes, perform a dance of love in the village of Tsurui in Hokkaido. The elegant birds, ...

Production of heso daikon radish, a local specialty, was at its peak in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture in late December.