Tokyo stocks soared Wednesday on the yen's plunge that lifted exporters, as investors increasingly priced in a possible win ...

Former President Donald Trump has won the U.S. presidential election, beating Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, major ...

Japan aims to build a strong relationship of trust and cooperation with the U.S. government led by the next president to ...

The body of a German university student was found off the coast of Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, a few weeks after he ...

Donald Trump's return to the White House is likely to make Japan reluctant to raise potentially controversial proposals affecting the decades-old bilateral alliance -- including Prime Minister Shigeru ...

Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on Wednesday expressed concerns that former President Donald Trump, who has won the U.S. presidential election, would be passiv ...

An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and "shochu" distilled ...

Japan's parliament will convene a special session from November 11 following the general election, the top government ...

Japan's Mecca of martial arts, the Nippon Budokan, hosted women's kendo competition for the first time at the recent national ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange has extended its trading hours by 30 minutes starting Nov. 5 without any trouble on the first day, ...

Japan's iconic Mt. Fuji got its first snowcap of the season, the latest date on record following unusually warm weather.

When police searched a group of abandoned motels in a city some 50 kilometers northeast of Tokyo earlier this year, they ...