The Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party are expected to agree on Tuesday to abandon their efforts to pass ...

IBM Japan President Akio Yamaguchi has been chosen to succeed Takeshi Niinami as chairman of the Japan Association of ...

Former Major League Baseball pitcher Kenta Maeda, 37, who has now signed with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, held a press ...

The government lifted a subsequent earthquake advisory for off the coast of Hokkaido and Sanriku at midnight Monday, ending ...

Music boxes crafted to look like Christmas cakes are on sale at the Kumanodo gallery in Aoba Ward, Sendai.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred off the east coast of Aomori Prefecture at around 2:38 p.m. on Tuesday. No subsequent tsunami was predicted.

The government will require foreign real estate buyers to disclose their nationality when registering their transactions, ...

More than 70,000 residents of the Palestinian territory of Gaza have died from Israel’s military operations. It is unbearable to see cities reduced to ruins by airstrikes and other attacks.

At a time when there is great worry in Japan about a possible Taiwan contingency, companies that operate telecommunication ...

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake occurred in northern Fukui Prefecture at around 1:57 p.m. on Tuesday. No tsunami was expected from the quake.

Berlin-based writer Yoko Tawada was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize, a biennial prize in Germany for a person of letters who ...

A Hong Kong opinion leader who was a leading critic of China has been found guilty in court. The current situation in which China is taking away freedoms and suppressing free speech in Hong Kong is ...