Shohei Ohtani became the first Major League Baseball player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season on Thursday i ...

A-27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a woman's apartment in Osaka Prefecture by deducing the ...

One feared consequence of Japan's lowering of the age of adulthood to 18 in 2022 appears to have come true -- a rise in young ...

In late June as the sun beat down on Tokyo's Ginza district, nearly 50 people stood lined up outside an outlet selling ...

The introduction of an optional separate surname system in Japan, which would allow Japanese couples to choose whether to ...

A shinkansen stopped on a route between Tokyo and northeastern Japan, the railway operator JR East said Thursday, with the ...

The assembly of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on Thursday unanimously adopted a no-confidence motion against Gov.

A Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds earl ...

Mie Prefectural Police on Sept. 18 arrested a 32-year-old Filipino factory worker on suspicion of abandoning the body of a ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's fund management body donated a total of 100 million yen (approx. $700,000) to the Liberal ...

The Bank of Japan began a two-day policy meeting Thursday amid growing expectations that the central bank would keep interest ...

Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices ...