Seven members of the quasi-gang “Chinese Dragon” were arrested on Sept. 17 on suspicion of obstructing a business by ...

More than two years after the deadly sinking of a tour boat off the coast of Hokkaido, the Japan Coast Guard arrested the ...

Japan posted a trade deficit for a second straight month in August, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, despite signs of ...

The health ministry on Sept. 18 blamed health problems that occurred after people ingested Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.’s ...

TOKYO/TAIPEI--A Chinese aircraft carrier entered Japan’s contiguous waters for the first time on Wednesday, Japan’s defense ...

Tokyoites continued sweltering in the intense heat wave on Sept. 18 as a high temperature record dating more than 80 years ...

Admission fees will be raised at 11 modern art facilities run as part of the Benesse Art Site Naoshima project on three ...

A Japanese boy on his way to school in this southern Chinese city was attacked and injured on the morning of Sept. 18, ...

Asian shares were trading mixed Wednesday as markets focused on prospects for the U.S. Federal Reserve’s first cut to ...

Bustling with foreign tourists, Tokyo's Asakusa district is seeing a 25 percent increase in commercial land prices near ...

YOKOHAMA--The Yokohama District Court on Sept. 17 handed a suspended sentence to a Thai restaurant worker who fatally stabbed ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election will likely be decided in a runoff, an Asahi Shimbun survey shows ...