Education minister Toshiko Abe has apologized for telling a Japanese Communist Party member during a committee meeting that ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a 25% additional tariff on all imported automobiles -- a hardline protectionist ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency said Friday it will launch its official YouTube channel next month to showcase the ...

Students from across Japan convened here March 26 to present a list of over 20,000 signatures imploring Japan to sign and ...

A closing ceremony was held on March 24 at Ryugasaki Municipal Omiya Elementary School in Ibaraki Prefecture, which will ...

A 48-year-old woman in Fukuoka Prefecture was arrested March 27 for allegedly stealing some 160 items including sugar placed ...

The Tokyo District Court has ordered a local Chinese restaurant to pay some 70 million yen (about $464,000) in compensation ...

Prices of rice in Tokyo jumped around 90 percent in March from a year earlier, with the government's recent release of ...

Josh Weigensberg, a partner at the law firm Pryor Cashman, said that one question the Ghibli-style AI art raises is whether ...

Yuko Kawai, vice president of the Bank of Kochi, will be promoted to the top post, becoming the first woman to lead a ...

Japanese figure skating pair Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara clinched gold Thursday at the world championships in Boston, ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday called a federal election for May 3, seeking to become the first prime ...