More and more women are leaving the regional communities where they were born and flooding into the Tokyo area. This is the ...

Naomi Osaka’s second-round match at the Australian Open could not possibly have started in a worse way. All of 21 minutes in, ...

Makers of shochu in Kagoshima Prefecture are using various measures to attract new people to the distilled liquor, including ...

Negotiators reached a phased deal on Wednesday to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the U.S. and Qatar ...

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 ...

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

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

The players were chosen from among the thousands of Ukrainians wounded in the war. With limbs lost to Russian attacks, they ...

Spending by foreign visitors to Japan exceeded 8 trillion yen for the first time in 2024, reaching 8.1395 trillion yen, ...

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