"Futehodo," an abbreviation of the title of the popular drama "Futekisetsu nimo hodo ga aru!" was selected as Japan's top ...

A man has been arrested for allegedly snatching glasses while riding a moped with pedals, police says, as the growing ...

Yakult Swallows slugger Munetaka Murakami pledges to do his best to lead his team to the championship next year before ...

Jinichiro Kozuma recently reflected on a 2024 season in which he became the first Japanese to play full time on the ...

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin Co. said Monday it will go out of business after losing 48.2 billion yen ($320 ...

Japan halts issuing new health insurance cards, as the government pushes to merge their functions into the My Number ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that North Korean soldiers deployed in western Russia have been killed ...

A bear was trapped and killed Monday after a two-day stay in a northeastern Japan supermarket, police said, ending an ...

Countries negotiating a treaty to address plastic pollution ended their weeklong meeting in Busan, South Korea, on Monday ...

The Japanese government is planning to generate some 20 gigawatts of electricity, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear ...

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, who is nationally recognized, was elected Sunday as the top leader of Japan's second-largest ...

Over 30 percent of foreign tourists to Japan experienced problems associated with overtourism during their trips in 2024 and ...