Mourners gathered at the site in Nara where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot three years ago on July 8 to ...

Emperor Naruhito, who has made water-related research his life’s work, visited facilities that supply water for Mongolia’s ...

An overwhelming percentage of opposition candidates in the Upper House election support a “total ban” on corporate and group donations, but the rate was zero for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a ...

KANANASKIS, Canada—Despite intense efforts in laying the groundwork for a breakthrough, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba failed to clinch a deal on removing U.S. tariffs at his second face-to-face ...

Japanese have a much harsher view of refugees than citizens in other countries and have done the least individually to help people who have fled their homelands, an international survey showed.

A recent survey has revealed sentiments and perceptions of current Japan–South Korea relations have improved among residents of both countries compared to a similar survey taken a decade ago.

BANGKOK--Thai police said Tuesday over a dozen foreigners, mostly Australians and British, were arrested for allegedly running an online investment fraud that had duped people out of at least 1.9 ...

A Tokyo cafe is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that recommends personalized menu items after analyzing the customer’s mental and physical states.

SINGAPORE--Chinese medical office worker Qin Meng has found a lucrative side-hustle: she wakes up before midnight, fills in her clients’ divorce certificate applications on a government website ...

Tokyo has issued its highest-level evacuation advisory for Japanese nationals in Iran and is coordinating ways to get them out of harm’s way, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said June 17.

Okinawans gather at the "Konpaku no To" memorial in Itoman on June 23 and other locations to pray for those who died during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II. (Video footage by ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party set an ambitious goal of lifting the nation’s nominal gross domestic product to 1,000 trillion yen ($6.88 trillion) by 2040 among its campaign promises for ...