The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday rejected South Korean findings that North Korea likely ...

Japan, the United States and Europe are increasingly pouring enormous subsidies into their own industries and stepping up ...

An Asian university placed higher than continental Europe's leading institution for the first time in the latest annual ...

Former Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka formally announced his candidacy on Sept. 29 for the Oct. 18 rerun mayoral election, ...

The surviving head of a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary destroyed in the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki is expected to be ...

On September 27, the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, where yokozuna ...

At a time when the fight for gender equality is facing a backlash, pressure is mounting for the next leader of the United ...

Hokkaido University's harassment prevention office determined in July that actions taken by a professors' council toward ...

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday morning, lifted by artificial intelligence- and semiconductor-related shares on hopes for further ...

The prices of 3,153 food and beverage items in Japan are set to rise next month as higher packaging costs stemming from the ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived in Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Wednesday to meet with people a ...

The Japanese government is set to submit to the Diet a bill to mandate disclosure of so-called beneficial ownership of legal ...