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 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) scored a historic landslide victory in the House of Representatives election in Japan, securing more than two-third ...

Deanna Stellato-Dudek, an American-born Canadian pairs skater at the Olympics, hit her head on the ice in a training session ...

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

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

Toyota Motor Corp.'s labor union on Wednesday demanded an annual bonus equivalent to 7.3 months' worth of pay, down 0.3 month ...

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

Japan's Taiga Hasegawa won snowboard slopestyle silver on Wednesday at the Milan Cortina Games, his first Olympic medal, as ...

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

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

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 ...