A Tokyo court has sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison over his involvement in a May graffiti incident at the capital's war-linked Yasukuni shrine.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba holds phone talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a ...

The government will compile a record 115.5 trillion yen ($734 billion) initial budget for fiscal 2025 as defense and social ...

Japan and China reaffirmed in a series of high-level talks in Beijing on Wednesday that they will promote "strategic and ...

J-League runners-up Sanfrecce Hiroshima on Wednesday announced the signing of forward Ryo Germain, one of the leading scorers ...

Japan's average temperature in 2024 is likely to hit a record high for the second consecutive year, preliminary figures ...

Flight voice recordings from a Japan Coast Guard plane involved in a fatal collision were released Wednesday, reinforcing the ...

Just a few months into its life as a B-League basketball venue, LaLa arena Tokyo-Bay, the new home of the Chiba Jets, has ...

Japan's education minister requests her advisory panel to consider expanding the discretion of schools, allowing them to ...

Former New York Yankee and free agent Masahiro Tanaka has agreed to join the Yomiuri Giants, the Central League club ...

Japan is set to introduce a system to temporarily place factories under state control in the event of a contingency to ...

An exposition of the sacred relics of St. Francis Xavier, the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary, has been held in the ...