Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a 54-year-old woman on suspicion of killing her 89-year-old mother at her home in the prefecture’s city of Isumi. Hideko Ishigami, a part-time worker from the ...

As the clearest political heir to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces a defining question: Can she preserve Abe’s strategic vision while adapting it to a far more ...

Rescuers are scouring mountains of rubble in search of survivors following Monday’s magnitude 7.4 quake.

India considers incidents along its disputed border with China “most serious” and “the state of the border affairs” will “reflect on the state of our larger bilateral ties,” the Ministry of External ...

One bank strategist argues that an international price comparison for the pork-and-rice dish — rather than burgers — gives a better sense of how the yen’s retreat feels.

World No. 2 Elena Rybakina came from a set down to defeat four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka on Tuesday to reach the WTA Toronto Masters semifinals, where she will face fourth-ranked Coco Gauff.

Both airlines had raised the surcharges on the routes for tickets issued in July and August to a record ¥65,000 from ¥56,000 for May and June.

The Golden State Warriors and superstar guard Stephen Curry plan to extend their marriage ⁠until Curry retires, team general manager Mike Dunleavy reiterated on Tuesday. Both sides have previously ...

Beijing – Chinese robot maker Unitree has priced its Shanghai initial public offering at 150.80 yuan per share, seeking to raise 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in a deal that would see it become the ...

Technical wreck diver Kingo Wakasa, 56, is going against all odds to document the rusted hull of the USS Emmons destroyer on the seabed off northern Okinawa.

Wealthier inhabitants of the commercial capital are drilling boreholes to bypass the municipality, starving it of funds needed to fix the mess.

Japan is seeing a trend of younger people undergoing aesthetic surgery, with a major cosmetic clinic saying the percentage of its patients age 19 or younger had risen 2.6 times in roughly a decade.