Sanae Takaichi was reelected as Japan's prime minister in parliament on Wednesday as the Diet convened a special session ...

Due to the rapid decline in the population of 18-year-olds in Japan, an education ministry estimate has revealed that about ...

The Kasedori festival, which has been passed down for about 400 years, took place in the city of Kaminoyama, Yamagata ...

NASA began another practice launch countdown Tuesday for its first moonshot in decades with astronauts after making repai ...

Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani pitched for the first time in a live batting practice session during ...

Three men were buried under snow in northern Japan on Wednesday before being rescued, with one of them, likely in his 60s, ...

The following is an explanation of how a new Japanese prime minister is selected in a special parliamentary session.

An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was a ...

Tarique Rahman, who steered his Bangladesh Nationalist Party to an overwhelming victory in last week's general election, was ...

Sanae Takaichi is set to be reelected as Japan's prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Wednesday as the Diet convenes a special se ...

The government of Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, plans to introduce a lodging tax of 150 yen (about $1) per person per night, which may ove ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in January dipped 4.9 percent from a year earlier to 3.60 million, the government said Wednes ...