An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit the Tokara Islands in southwestern Japan on Wednesday, an area that has ...

The Japanese government said Tuesday it has updated its disaster risk plan in the hope of reducing the estimated death toll ...

Tokyo stocks dropped Wednesday morning, pressured by growing concern that U.S.-Japan tariff negotiations could be prolonged ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of further increasing tariffs on imports from Japan, envisioning a ...

Two male university students were arrested for allegedly shoplifting about 330,000 yen (approx. $2,280) worth of official ...

Students at Niigata University started a food bank to help classmates who don't have enough to eat. On June 24, they gave ...

Coco Gauff became just the third woman in the Open era to lose in the first round at Wimbledon right after winning the ...

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Kazuyuki Masu, a former executive at trading house Mitsubishi Corp., joined the Bank of Japan's Policy Board on Tuesday, ...

Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago shared their pain on Tuesday with a U.N. special ...

Koko Kondo, an 80-year-old Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, was invited to give a peace studies lecture for students at Komyo ...