The mayor and other officials of this eastern Japan city, known for its searing summer heat, got a taste of super spicy food ...

Japan and the United States are arranging for U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to make his first visit to Japan early next ...

A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a woman to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for injuring eight students ...

For decades, Japan's defense spending remained around 1% of GDP. Just two and a half years ago, at the end of 2022, the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump recently justified his country's attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran by likening them to the ...

Early ripening peaches have reached their harvest season in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. These juicy, ...

Tokyo stocks rose Friday for a fourth straight day, with the Nikkei index ending above the 40,000 line for the first time ...

The prefectural police here on June 27 arrested two university students for allegedly shoplifting about 330,000 yen (roughly ...

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Japan executed a man convicted for the 2017 serial murders of nine people in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, a source close to the ...

Japan's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi on Friday refrained from commenting directly on U.S. President Donald ...

The Japanese Olympic Committee elected former speed skater and cyclist Seiko Hashimoto as its new president on Thursday night ...