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

The mayor of a city in Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, said Wednesday it will accept a preliminary survey that the industry ...

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday, with the Nikkei stock index briefly up over 2 percent, lifted by artificial intelligence- and ...

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

One person died and another was left wounded after they were found collapsed on streets in different wards of the western ...

The Hitachinokuni Long Trail, which takes hikers through forests and mountain village landscapes across six municipalities in ...

Uber Japan, Japan Post Co. and others announced on Sept. 29 that they will launch a service allowing people to book public ...

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

Amid an increasing number of foreign residents in this southwest Japan city, the local fire department has held a life-saving ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Mongolian Prime Minister Nyam-Osor Uchral on Tuesday vowed to further deepen ties ...

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

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