A portion of Japan’s foreign aid has failed to achieve its intended goals, with utilization rates falling significantly short ...

KOBE--Records pertaining to a notorious 14-year-old serial killer in Kobe in 1997 were discarded by a family court here in ...

Two-time Olympic figure skating medalist Shoma Uno is donning another professional mantle as a new member of the esports team ...

The head of the U.N. atomic agency observed firsthand the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant’s ongoing radioactive ...

Seventy-two percent of voters believe that Japan should legalize same-sex marriages, compared with 18 percent who oppose such ...

OSAKA—A female prosecutor who accused her former boss of sexual assault resigned on April 30, saying the Osaka District ...

KYOTO--Yukihiro Sugatani was born in the Rokuharagakku community in the ancient capital's Higashiyama Ward, where ...

Japan intervened to prop up the yen against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, its first official currency action in nearly two ...

Police have arrested an Asahiyama Zoo employee here who said he burned the body of his wife in an incinerator at his ...

Ceremonies and memorials marked the 14th anniversary of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, but the disaster has still not ...

This is part of a series on issues surrounding freedom of speech, focusing on “justice” in society where social media and ...

In those days, villagers employed by the company were known as “kaisha-yuki-san”—literally, “those bound for the company”—a ...