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 ...

Yokohama F Marinos on Tuesday named Hideo Oshima as the new manager of the struggling J-League first-division club.

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

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

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

The average price of rice in Japan fell below 4,000 yen ($27) per 5 kilograms for the first time in around three and a half ...

Eighty years ago, the Battle of Okinawa claimed the lives of many residents during fierce ground combat between U.S. and ...

The Japan Tourism Agency has urged the Japanese arm of online travel agency Agoda Company Pte. to improve its business ...

At Japan's lone facility dedicated to seal protection, the animals get no names. Doing so would only increase the heartbreak ...

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