A Japanese novelist on Thursday became her country's first to win a major British award for crime and mystery writing, ...

Campaigning for the House of Councillors election is officially underway in Japan, with a major focal point being measures to ...

The official campaign period for the House of Councillors election got underway on July 3 as the lingering issue of ...

A Japanese diplomat is creating abstract art using sand from Israel and the Palestinian territories as symbols of prayers for ...

Many Japanese rice traders expected in June that prices of the staple food would drop over the next three months, data from a ...

Sohei Kamiya, leader of the populist minor opposition Sanseito party, has courted controversy ahead of Japan's House of ...

Japan's decision to make high school tuition virtually free, even for private institutions, is raising alarm among educators ...

A Michael Jackson impersonator in Osaka is using his popularity on social media to help address issues such as overcrowding ...

Residents on southwestern Japan's Akuseki Island are facing difficult decisions over whether to evacuate as earthquakes ...

Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical ...

(*Note: The official English title is "Salmon Sanctuary -- Nemuro Strait: perennial journey.") ...

TOKYO -- Two women acted quickly and saved a teenager who collapsed on a Tokyo train on May 8. On June 29, they were thanked ...