Police arrested an 18-year-old American citizen who was on a vacation with his family in Japan on Oct. 23 in connection to a ...

Hand, foot and mouth disease cases, a viral infection that causes rashes on the hands, feet and mouth, are on the rise across ...

The decision by the Vatican and China on Tuesday to extend an accord on the appointment of Catholic bishops in the communist ...

The iconic statue of a loyal dog that has been a popular meeting point in front of JR Shibuya Station will be blocked from ...

KOFU—A court here ordered the Kofu municipal government to pay about 58 million yen ($382,430) to the parents of an ...

MATSUE—A local senior official of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party here has stirred controversy by expressing his ...

Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run ball has sold at auction for nearly $4.4 million, a record high price not just for a baseball, ...

KANAZAWA—A man who served a seven-year prison sentence over the brutal murder of a schoolgirl was granted a retrial after a ...

About 468.4 billion yen ($ 3.1 billion), or approximately 30 percent, of special government loans extended to households that ...

In a rare crackdown on an artist’s live street performance, police referred a case to prosecutors on a female idol group’s ...

With International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach’s term expiring in June next year, seven candidates are competing ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited strategic missile bases and examined the readiness “for action of strategic ...