Junya Ogawa was elected the new leader of the Centrist Reform Alliance (Chudo) on Feb. 13 and faces the urgent task of ...

KITA-KYUSHU—A trainee pilot who helped staff two passenger flights as part of his training has been arrested on suspicion of ...

Asia shares were trading mostly lower Friday, tracking sharp Wall Street losses on a sell-off of technology-related stocks ...

Surging consumer prices and changing views on gender roles have soured the mood of chocolate-giving on Valentine’s Day.

The annual cherry blossom season is expected to start in Tokyo on March 21, closely trailed by Japan's other regions ...

Japanese police believe the two trends are part of the globalization of fraud crimes. Gangs from different countries, including Japan, are apparently working together to create huge bases for their ...

Choi Ga-on of South Korea denied American Chloe Kim a historic three-peat ‌in the women's halfpipe snowboard at the Winter ...

Around 30 finless porpoises were filmed for the first time in waters in Tokyo Bay off Haneda Airport. The aerial footage, ...

Japan’s OHISAMA demonstration satellite is scheduled to be launched in fiscal 2026 on a mission that could revolutionize ...

Today is Valentine’s Day. But in Japan, it’s also said to be “Niboshi no hi” --literally “day of niboshi,” the latter being small, dried fish used in Japanese cooking to  make “dashi” soup stock.

The government plans to formulate its first national strategy dedicated to enhancement of intelligence gathering and analysis ...

Australia's Cooper Woods won the moguls competition to secure the country's first gold medal at the Milano Cortina Games by ...