Tokyo stocks were slightly higher in early Thursday trading as overnight Wall Street gains kept sentiment upbeat and helped erase los ...

WAKAYAMA -- The largest women's prison in western Japan has launched a new initiative of "interactive dialogue" tours aiming ...

Just before the holidays in 2025, Julie Hart felt stuck. A nagging problem she had struggled with for years left her ...

North Korea said Thursday it tested several weapons systems earlier this week, including a tactical ballistic missile tipped ...

China's top diplomat Wang Yi will make a two-day visit to North Korea from Thursday at the invitation of the North Korean ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung held a luncheon meeting with former Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday ...

The on-duty lawyer system allows bar associations to dispatch a lawyer free of charge once, within 72 hours of arrest, before ...

National universities across Japan are increasingly scaling back their affiliated schools, apparently due to a sharp drop in the birth rate, ...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte met behind closed doors with President Donald Trump on Wednesday for discussions that were ...

The Russian government said Wednesday it summoned the Japanese ambassador and lodged a protest over the recent investment by ...

Japan's fiscal 2026 main budget, the first to be drafted by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration, was enacted after ...

An organization supporting a stable rice supply in Japan that includes stakeholders such as the National Federation of ...