Political parties in Japan have long faced criticism for fielding celebrity candidates in House of Councillors elections, ...

Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is this August releasing a home-use toilet which measures the amount, hardness and other ...

A couple who allegedly left their three young children unattended at their home here for more than six hours were arrested ...

More than 20 million foreign visitors arrived in Japan from January to June 2025, a new high for the first six months of the ...

More than 1 million low-income households -- most of them working families with children -- who depend on the nation's publ ...

As Japan is experiencing extreme heat, a spate of water accidents has been reported across the country, and many foreigners ...

A Japanese court on Thursday ordered a local government to pay a former assistant nurse about 31 million yen ($209,000) in ...

Protests and events against President Donald Trump's controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to ...

A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma Inc. who was detained in Beijing and charged with spying has been sentenced to 3 1/2 ...

The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the ...

Onosato got back on the winning track Thursday at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament after Hoshoryu's injury withdrawal left ...

Struggling yokozuna Hoshoryu on Thursday pulled out from the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament, where he had slumped to a 1-3 ...