TOKYO -- "I felt it was wrong to force my spouse to do something that I myself would hate," Iori Warita, 30, told lawmakers ...

A student at a public junior high school in Japan's capital gave up playing softball after a coach verbally abused her, and ...

Okinawa on June 23 observed "Memorial Day," marking the day 80 years ago when organized combat between the then Imperial ...

Kirsty Coventry was officially sworn in Tuesday as president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the fi ...

Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi revealed that the Japanese government will provide additional rice from its emergency ...

Japan's communications ministry will request a detailed report from Nippon Television Network Corp. (Nippon TV) after Taichi ...

Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday to snap a three-day losing streak, as concerns eased over tensions in the Middle East after U.S.

The number of students enrolled in Japanese schools in China declined over 10 percent in the academic year starting April fro ...

World leaders were gathering in the Netherlands on Tuesday for the start of a historic two-day NATO summit that could u ...

Major Japanese convenience store operator Lawson Inc. opened a next-generation convenience store here on June 23, utilizing ...

More than 31,000 people have caught whooping cough this year in Japan, a nearly eight-fold rise from last year that has ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.