Education minister Toshiko Abe has apologized for telling a Japanese Communist Party member during a committee meeting that ...

Students from across Japan convened here March 26 to present a list of over 20,000 signatures imploring Japan to sign and ...

Tokyo Olympic race walking silver medalist Koki Ikeda lodged an appeal Friday to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over his ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a 25% additional tariff on all imported automobiles -- a hardline protectionist ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency said Friday it will launch its official YouTube channel next month to showcase the ...

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. are set to begin merger talks to create Japan's largest ...

Multiple examinees who took a Japanese language test for non-native speakers in December submitted papers deemed ungradable, ...

A 48-year-old woman in Fukuoka Prefecture was arrested March 27 for allegedly stealing some 160 items including sugar placed ...

A closing ceremony was held on March 24 at Ryugasaki Municipal Omiya Elementary School in Ibaraki Prefecture, which will ...

The Tokyo District Court has ordered a local Chinese restaurant to pay some 70 million yen (about $464,000) in compensation ...

Prices of rice in Tokyo jumped around 90 percent in March from a year earlier, with the government's recent release of ...

Josh Weigensberg, a partner at the law firm Pryor Cashman, said that one question the Ghibli-style AI art raises is whether ...