Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he plans to speak with Donald Trump over the phone within days to discuss the U.S.

Organized crime groups struggling with declining membership and profits are increasingly adopting techniques honed by a new ...

OSAKA--The grounds of the Japan Mint in Osaka’s Kita Ward opened to the public on April 5 in an annual event to show off the ...

Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton is not used to aiming lower. But he may need to as he adjusts to his first season with ...

Back when smartphones and email messaging were still unheard of, there was a story that Tsuyoshi Mori (1928-2010), a ...

Tourists could enjoy the rare view of the lake in the No. 1 crater of Mount Nakadake in the Aso volcano complex here turned ...

The University of Tokyo will establish its first new faculty in nearly 70 years to significantly increase foreign student enrollment.

Disgraced celebrity Masahiro Nakai sexually assaulted a former announcer at Fuji Television Network Inc. in a “work-related” ...

The Rikyugura sake brewery is looking to the future as it taps into the thriving Japanese whisky market and opened Senshu ...

BANGKOK—The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to over 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies ...

Shohei Ohtani met the moment again, and his latest theatrics have the Los Angeles Dodgers perfect to start the season.

Tokyo and Washington went to great pains in 1996 to conceal the existence of a CIA office in Tokyo, saying that the news ...