Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call that Japan will continue to ...

Japan's average temperature in 2024 is likely to hit a record high for the second consecutive year, preliminary figures ...

Japan's education minister requests her advisory panel to consider expanding the discretion of schools, allowing them to ...

The government will compile a record 115.5 trillion yen ($734 billion) initial budget for fiscal 2025 as defense and social ...

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

Former New York Yankee and free agent Masahiro Tanaka has agreed to join the Yomiuri Giants, the Central League club ...

Japan and China reaffirmed in a series of high-level talks in Beijing on Wednesday that they will promote "strategic and ...

Just a few months into its life as a B-League basketball venue, LaLa arena Tokyo-Bay, the new home of the Chiba Jets, has ...

J-League runners-up Sanfrecce Hiroshima on Wednesday announced the signing of forward Ryo Germain, one of the leading scorers ...

A Tokyo court has sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison over his involvement in a May graffiti incident at the capital's war-linked Yasukuni shrine.

Japan is set to introduce a system to temporarily place factories under state control in the event of a contingency to ...

Japan's parliament approves a series of legislative changes aimed at restoring voter trust through abolishing "policy ...