The Emperor and Empress met with junior and high school students on Monday at a prefectural school for people with visual ...

The Japanese government has decided to allow same-sex couples to be treated as being in de facto marriages under a total of ...

Former Chairman of Suntory Holdings Ltd. Takeshi Niinami offered his resignation on Tuesday as the chair of the Japan ...

The Japan Association of Corporate Executives announced Tuesday that Takeshi Niinami will resign from his position as the ...

Two-time all-Japan champion figure skater Rika Kihira announced on Monday that she is making the switch to ice dancing ...

Nissan Motor Co. is considering selling some or all of its stake in the Yokohama F. Marinos, a professional soccer club in ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday arrived in Busan, South Korea, where he will hold a summit meeting with South Korean ...

Two Ise-ebi spiny lobsters with unusual shell pigmentation — one white and one blue — have been caught by fishermen and ...

Three of the 23 facilities designated nationwide to transplant livers donated by brain-dead individuals have not performed a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponents appeared to make little progress at a White House meeting aimed at ...

The Japanese Imperial House Economy Council on Tuesday decided that Princess Akiko, 43, will become head of the Mikasa family ...

Shortly after taking office on Oct. 1 last year, Ishiba dissolved the House of Representatives, the all-important lower ...