About 80% of respondents to a survey of Mount Fuji climbers approved of entry restrictions on the Yoshida Trail implemented ...

Traditional cormorant fishing has begun on the Nagara River in this central Japan city, with fiery torches on boats creating ...

SoftBank Group Corp. said Tuesday it swung back to profitability in fiscal 2024 for the first time in four years with a net ...

Replicas of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and certificate awarded last year to Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors ...

Lawyers representing former Japanese television personality Masahiro Nakai have disputed a third-party committee's finding ...

The father of a 15-year-old student arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly woman who was found stabbed in a street in ...

The nationwide average price of rice in Japan recently marked the first decline in 18 weeks following the release of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new pope at a conclave held in the wake of Pope Francis' passing, assuming the name ...

Japan is seeing a boom in gold investment amid heightening concerns over a global economic slowdown caused by U.S. President ...

Struggling Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. plans to cut around 20,000 jobs globally, more than 10,000 above the reduction ...

TOKYO -- A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was ...

A name on a forgotten medicine bag at a crime scene has led to the arrest of a suspect in a series of burglaries across two ...