At Tobu Zoo in the town of Miyashiro, Saitama Prefecture, an event started where people can take souvenir photos with a small ...

The number of foreign workers in Japan injured or killed in work-related accidents topped 6,000 in 2024 for the first time, ...

BUZEN, Fukuoka -- The mayor of this southwestern Japan city and a pro wrestler recently staged a "showdown" as part of a ...

A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold at 2.3 millio ...

The Imperial Household Agency released photos of rescue cats kept by the Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter ...

A fire broke out early Monday at a plant operated by Nippon Steel Corp. in Hokkaido, northern Japan, with no reports of ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Monday the central bank will weigh the pros and cons of raising its policy rate at the ...

The Nikkei stock index fell over 2 percent, weighed down by a stronger yen and rising long-term yields amid growing ...

Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turned 24 on Monday after marking a year full of fresh ...

The Mainichi Newspapers argues that Perplexity AI creates responses to users based on articles obtained without permission on the generative AI search service it operates, and asserts this constitutes ...

Pretax profits at Japanese companies in the July-September period rose 19.7 percent from a year earlier to 27.54 trillion yen ...

Japan has held informal talks with the Philippines on the possible export of a surface-to-air missile system as the ...