The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning sailed through waters east of the island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean for the first ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

KITAYAMA, Wakayama Prefecture--Thrill-seekers take note: The season for white water rafting on the Kitayamagawa river is now ...

Princess Kako arrived here on June 5 for an official visit commemorating the 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...

Shigeo Nagashima, a true giant in Japanese baseball and one of the country’s most popular athletes, died of pneumonia at a ...

The Tokyo Bay Grand Fireworks Festival, a summer treat last held in 2015, is returning next year as part of a special ...

Ibaraki Prefecture is seeking to host the country's first demonstration reactor for next-generation nuclear technology known ...

The organizing committee for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles signed Honda as a “founding partner” Monday, giving the ...

Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong on Friday was charged with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger ...

Japan’s chief tariff negotiator urged the United States to reconsider U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement to double ...

The traditional Misoma Hajime Sai ceremony, in which sacred trees are felled for timber to house Shinto deities at the famed ...