The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF)'s Blue Impulse aerobatic demonstration team captivated spectators at an annual air ...

HIROSHIMA -- The Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education here has completed its 2026 "Hiroshima peace calendar," continuing ...

Renowned illustrator and manga artist Hisashi Eguchi is facing mounting criticism after allegedly using a photograph without ...

Japan has often prided itself on its orderly, low-crime society, but cracks in that image are widening amid rising car thefts ...

The man standing trial for the 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday offered an apology ...

Japan's household spending in October fell a real 3.0 percent from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama rewrote his personal best score to top the men's short program on Thursday at the figure skating Grand ...

A University of Tokyo research team announced findings showing that the H5N1 avian flu virus can remain infectious in ...

Parties to an international treaty regulating the trade of endangered species on Thursday formally rejected a proposa ...

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday told French counterpart Emmanuel Macron their countries should ...

Students and other applicants sitting university entrance exams in north Japan next year are likely to have difficulty ...

Japan has seen a series of judicial decisions criticizing insufficiencies in the protection of rights of same-sex couples.