Japan's agriculture ministry on May 16 announced a revision of the bidding system under which government stockpiled rice is ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako hosted a dinner on May 15 at the Imperial Palace for Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, who ...

T-4 training aircraft crashed into Lake Iruka in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, May 14, in a spectacle seen by visitors a ...

The employment ice age generation specifically refers to those who entered the workforce around 1993 to 2004, after Japan's ...

Some 30% of major religious corporations responding to a Mainichi Shimbun survey believe that a court order for the ...

Shohei Ohtani homered twice and drove in six runs in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 19-2 rout of the Athletics on Thursday.

Japan's parliament on Friday enacted bills to introduce digital arrest warrants and other documents related to criminal ...

Tokyo stocks ended flat Friday, as some export-related issues were sold on a stronger yen, while companies with positive ...

Japanese parliament on Friday enacted a law to allow preemptive acts of cyberdefense, giving the government the ability to ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday launched a "security clearance" system to allow critical government information to be ...

More than 30,000 spectators were treated to an ancient Japanese imperial procession, a highlight of Kyoto's Aoi Matsuri ...

Grass puffers were observed laying eggs in a sea cove in the Tainamachi district of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. From April ...