Wildfires in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan have been contained five days after their outbreak, with evacuation orders ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency says it will launch its official YouTube channel next month to showcase the activities of ...

Multiple examinees who took a Japanese language test for non-native speakers in December submitted papers deemed ungradable, ...

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui will join a long-term mission at the International Space Station possibly in July on a journey ...

Toyota Motor Corp. says its global production rose 5.8 percent in February from a year earlier to 779,790 vehicles as it ...

Former world champion and two-time Olympic medalist Shoma Uno is aiming for new heights in figure skating as the producer of ...

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

A former ruling party lawmaker received a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence, suspended for five years, for defrauding the ...

The U.S. government's plan to impose an additional 25 percent tariff on auto imports will have an "extremely large impact" on ...

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

Shohei Ohtani launches his second home run of the season as the Los Angeles Dodgers held on for a 5-4 win in their home ...

Japanese figure skater Kaori Sakamoto places fifth in the short program at the world championships in Boston but stayed ...