A government spokesperson on Feb. 5 declined to comment on recent reporting by a weekly magazine that Prime Minister Sanae ...

The aim is to help children become more familiar with local bathhouses and encourage greater use. The Kobe Municipal ...

Another corruption scandal has surfaced at Japan's elite University of Tokyo, highlighting an astonishing lack of ethical ...

Yamagata, a city in northeastern Japan, topped the country's rankings for household spending on ramen for the fourth straig ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), stated on a recent TBS news program that ...

With the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election approaching, campaigns across Japan are heating up. Campaign teams are ...

A one-armed man in a kimono used to appear at the Oda family home each year, bowing silently with piercing eyes -- a fig ...

A fringe camp in an electoral district near Tokyo has sought to make a planned mosque a key issue in Sunday's general ...

YOKOHAMA -- Japanese citizens living overseas are complaining angrily that they have "no choice but to give up on voting" in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of the country's general ...

Tokyo stocks rebounded Friday, with the Topix index closing at a record high, as the selling of a wide range of shares was ...