MAEBASHI -- The former mayor of Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, who resigned over a scandal involving "love hotel" rendezvous ...

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the ...

In September last year, when the owner of a vacant house in a mountainous region of Yamagata Prefecture, in northeaste ...

Question: How many people actually want to attend year-end parties? Answer: In an online survey of 1,035 people in their 20s ...

By Chie Shimada I was born in Japan, spent my early school years in the U.K., and now live in South Korea with my British ...

A total of 3,498 properties around critical security facilities and remote islands in Japan were purchased by foreign ...

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. said Tuesday it will promote MUFG Bank President Junichi Hanzawa to group ...

Leaders of Japan's ruling bloc gave up hopes Tuesday of securing parliamentary approval this year of a bill to slash the ...

Japan logged the first trade surplus in five months in November of 322.3 billion yen ($2 billion), as year-on-year exports to ...

The Japanese government decided to extend an emergency grant of $2.5 million to cyclone-hit Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister ...

The government is considering its largest-ever initial budget of over 120 trillion yen ($775 billion) for the next fiscal ...

Under the current Constitution, if the House of Representatives is dissolved and members are unavailable, the House of ...