Sohei Kamiya, leader of the populist minor opposition Sanseito party, has courted controversy ahead of Japan's House of ...

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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit off small islands in southwestern Japan on Thursday, after over 1,000 ...

Japan's decision to make high school tuition virtually free, even for private institutions, is raising alarm among educators ...

A Japanese diplomat is creating abstract art using sand from Israel and the Palestinian territories as symbols of prayers for ...

TOKYO -- Two women acted quickly and saved a teenager who collapsed on a Tokyo train on May 8. On June 29, they were thanked ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration would likely begin sending letters informing some countries of their new ...

The official campaign period for the House of Councillors election got underway on July 3 as the lingering issue of ...

Diplomat and abstract sand artist Takashi Hattori and his work titled ...

Major Japanese beef bowl chain Yoshinoya Co. will introduce its first-ever noodle menu item in its 125-year history, at all ...

July 3, marks the official start of campaigning for the House of Councillors election. Can the sense of stagnation in ...

URAYASU, Chiba -- Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR)'s special summer program "Summer Cool-off" began July 2 with a surprise ...