Nearly 86 percent of respondents support Japan's sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, a Kyodo News survey shows, suggesting the public favors Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's firm stance ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledges that a part of an upcoming economic package, to be drawn up possibly by the end of the month, will include measures to boost the development of artificial ...

Yoshihide Suga, the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, is elected Japan's prime minister by parliament on Wednesday, with his immediate focus to be reviving the battered economy while keeping ...

A U.S. F-16 fighter jet belonging to Misawa Air Base dumped two fuel tanks Tuesday evening before making an emergency landing at Aomori Airport in northeastern Japan, the Defense Ministry and local ...

An 18-year-old woman was found stabbed with a kitchen knife stuck in her chest in a platform waiting room at a station in the central Japan city of Nagoya on Saturday, police said. Tsukine Kawamura ...

A Vietnamese student has been arrested on suspicion of providing barber services without a license at his home in Tokyo, serving as many as 3,000 customers since April 2021, police said on June 12.

A developer of ChatGPT said on April 10 that his company plans to open an office in Japan amid growing concerns about the chatbot's unauthorized collection of personal data and impact on learning ...

The presumed mastermind of a spate of burglaries that occurred across Japan since last year may be in the Philippines, an investigative source says.

Japan's new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he raised the issues of the Senkaku Islands, Hong Kong and the Xinjiang region in his first teleconference with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida embarked Sunday on a four-day trip to the Middle East that will take him to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar to boost "resource ...

Japanese consumer prices, including fresh food, are expected to rise 2.6 percent in the current fiscal year through March from a year earlier, mainly due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the impact ...

A record 35 women won seats in July 10's House of Councillors election in Japan after votes were tallied on July 11, breaking the previous record of 28 set in 2016 and matched in 2019.