It has been just 16 months since the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its former junior partner Komeito suffered a crushing ...

The Nikkei stock index on Tuesday rose to a record intraday high for the second straight day on hopes for expansionary fiscal ...

Toyota Motor Corp. announced Feb. 6 that President Koji Sato, 56, will become vice chairperson, and Chief Financial Officer ...

Japanese speed skater Miho Takagi claimed bronze in the women's 1,000 meters on Monday at the Milan Cortina Winter Games, ...

Japan's Kokomo Murase added Olympic gold to her medal collection on Monday in the women's snowboard big air final at the Mil ...

By Akihiko Tanaka, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo Barely hours after the year 2026 began, the United States launched a military operati ...

GUANGZHOU, China (Kyodo) -- Cosplay and merchandise sales of popular Japanese anime series "Detective Conan" have been banned ...

Sony Corporation said Monday it has decided to exit the Blu-ray disc recorder market as the widespread availability of streaming serv ...

Japanese ski jumper Ren Nikaido won the men's normal hill bronze Monday at the Milan Cortina Winter Games as Germany's Phil ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that the ruling bloc's landslide victory in the House of Representatives election gives her ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top government spokesman on Monday expressed "grave concern" that the sentencing to 20 years in ...

Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media tycoon and fierce critic of Beijing, is set to be sentenced Monday in one of the most ...