Japanese stocks led the gains in Asian markets Friday after Wall Street rallied to one of its best days of the year as data ...

The lifting of the Nankai Trough megaquake advisory came after a tense week, which raises fears even greater confusion could ...

Japan grounded hundreds of flights and urged tens of thousands of people to evacuate in the eastern parts of the country on ...

I’ll let you go for today” is the famous punch line of a popular slapstick “manzai” comedy act. It is intoned with the cool ...

Economy minister Ken Saito indicated his desire to run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election to ...

Typhoon No. 7 is forecast to bring heavy rain and winds strong enough to overturn vehicles to eastern and northeastern Japan, ...

Six people have died on Mount Fuji in just the first month of the climbing season, already exceeding the total number of fatalities last season. Two climbers died on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of ...

Shigeto Fujiwara is one of the dwindling number of World War II veterans who are still around to share their battlefield ...

Defense Minister Minoru Kihara visited war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15 in a move that provoked a backlash ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to step up his country’s effort to defend a rules-based international order in a ...

Beyond the realm of rice-based dishes, the confectionery shop somehow pulled off re-creating a bowl of “toshikoshi soba” ...

COPENHAGEN--Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson will remain in detention in Greenland after he was arrested in the Danish ...