The number of foreign visitors to Japan in July rose 4.4 percent from a year earlier to 3.4 million, a record for the month, ...

Social media has been abuzz with users in Japan reporting sightings of a mysterious object that briefly lit up skies acro ...

U.S. President Donald Trump recently met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy and proposed a solution for the war ...

TOKYO -- As part of its heatstroke prevention efforts, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has launched the "Tokyo heat map" in ...

At least 520,000 people across Japan could be asked to evacuate for a week if authorities issue a special alert that the risk ...

Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain Hama-sushi Co. announced on Aug. 19 that a 3-year-old girl developed symptoms including a ...

Israel gave final approval for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the te ...

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has handed the then Machida Police Station chief the most severe reprimand over ...

TICAD is a Japan-hosted international aid conference that dates back to 1993 and was last held in Tunisia in 2022. China has ...

The traditional "Ubagami Daijingu Togyosai" event, considered the oldest festival in Hokkaido, was held in the town of Esashi ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will make a two-day visit to Japan from Sept. 7, according to her government, with her ...

A 93-year-old man in northeastern Japan was allegedly killed by his son, not a bear as initially believed, police said.