After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced plans for a new overnight express train connecting Tokyo with the northeastern ...

Authorities are considering installing security cameras in schools following a string of arrests of teachers suspected of ...

The central government has designated 723 municipalities in 30 prefectures for ramping up disaster mitigation measures based ...

Shohei Ohtani reached 30 homers for the fifth straight season, hitting a fourth-inning drive after fouling a pitch off the ...

Japan’s average land price rose for the fourth consecutive year, with hubs for foreign tourists logging some of the sharpest ...

Masanori Kin ran for a seat in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly on a policy of eliminating discrimination and promoting ...

The leaders of eight major political parties laid out differing plans to tackle rising consumer prices in a debate held on ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the number of officially recognized survivors has fallen ...

The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that he will be reincarnated and that his non-profit institution will have the sole ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation ...

WASHINGTON--Two Chinese nationals have been charged with spying inside the United States on behalf of Beijing, including by ...