The number of foreign visitors to Japan in July rose 4.4 percent from a year earlier to 3.4 million, a record for the month, ...

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has handed the then Machida Police Station chief the most severe reprimand over ...

TICAD is a Japan-hosted international aid conference that dates back to 1993 and was last held in Tunisia in 2022. China has ...

Social media has been abuzz with users in Japan reporting sightings of a mysterious object that briefly lit up skies acro ...

KOBE (Kyodo) -- Police are searching for a male suspect after a 24-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in a residential ...

TOKYO -- As part of its heatstroke prevention efforts, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has launched the "Tokyo heat map" in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump recently met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy and proposed a solution for the war ...

A 93-year-old man in northeastern Japan was allegedly killed by his son, not a bear as initially believed, police said.

The traditional "Ubagami Daijingu Togyosai" event, considered the oldest festival in Hokkaido, was held in the town of Esashi ...

Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain Hama-sushi Co. announced on Aug. 19 that a 3-year-old girl developed symptoms including a ...

At least 520,000 people across Japan could be asked to evacuate for a week if authorities issue a special alert that the risk ...

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said her country will never see South Korea as a partner for diploma ...