Japan is considering expanding the scope of industries under the Specified Skilled Worker visa for foreigners to address a ...

Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu took care of business against No. 2 maegashira Gonoyama to snap a two-bout losing streak at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament.

The families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago met with new U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass in ...

Shohei Ohtani led off the game with his 13th home run and Yoshinobu Yamamoto notched his fifth win of the season for the Los ...

The Japanese government is considering roughly doubling the supply of stockpiled rice to make up for the shortfall as rice ...

Japan's antitrust watchdog Thursday unveiled draft guidelines for the law governing smartphone software services of U.S. tech ...

Japan's Self-Defense Forces on Thursday continued searching for the two missing crew members of an Air Self-Defense Force ...

An Air Self-Defense Force training plane with two personnel aboard crashed into a large reservoir in central Japan shortly ...

Yokozuna Hoshoryu fell to No. 2 maegashira Abi for his second successive defeat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament as ...

Japan's health ministry is set to eliminate out-of-pocket payments associated with child delivery, possibly from April next ...

Over-the-counter drugs will become available at convenience stores in Japan within two years, following the enactment of ...

A bag containing an inflammable signal flame tube fell from a U.S. military helicopter over the Motobu peninsula in northern ...