Japan's Cabinet approved Wednesday a plan to lower the consumption tax rate on food and beverages to 1 percent from the ...

A new novel in Keigo Higashino's best-selling Galileo mystery series went on sale Wednesday, less than two weeks after the ...

A temple in this disaster-hit town is opening its own plastic pool on its grounds to children every day, offering them a ...

A research group from Ehime University's Paper Industry Innovation Center in this western Japan city and its Graduate School ...

The United States sees the substantial undervaluation of the Japanese yen as a serious risk to economic stability in Asia, ...

The responsibility for securing confidence in the yen as a currency rests with the Japanese government. Relying on the United ...

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday, with the Nikkei stock index ending up over 3 percent, lifted by optimism for AI demand growth ...

Some Bank of Japan policymakers backed further rate hikes, saying doing so would help tame recent surges in long-term ...

Dory Funk Jr., an American professional wrestler who also gained popularity in Japan as one half of a tag team with his late ...

The University of Tokyo announced on Aug. 4 that it had taken disciplinary action against a professor in their 60s for ...

A man who was reportedly covered in blood and wielding a kitchen knife died after being shot by police in Osaka Prefecture on ...

The powerful younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has condemned Japan's recent test-firing of a Tomahawk cruise ...