Thursday marked six years since Dr. Tetsu Nakamura was fatally shot at the age of 73 while engaging in humanitarian aid in ...

A man in his 50s in Sapporo was defrauded of a total of ¥122 million by men claiming to be police officers and others, ...

In response to the series of bear attacks on humans, the Environment Ministry plans to launch a nationwide survey next fiscal ...

Chinese and Russian bombers took an unusual route of flying toward Tokyo during their joint flight from the East China Sea to ...

The Liberal Democratic Party has compiled a draft outline of key points in a review of implementation guidelines for the ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise its short-term policy rate target to 0.75% from 0.5% at its Policy Board meeting on ...

A commemorative exhibition of ceramic dog figurines donated by Princess Hisako of Takamado started on Saturday at the Aichi ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after ...

When Miyagawa Kozan was born in Kyoto in 1842, his family had been making pottery for generations. After taking over the ...

Nippon Steel Corp. plans to invest ¥6 trillion in facilities and business in fiscal 2026-2030, including in United States ...

A senior Kremlin official said Friday that Russian police and National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas and ...

Authorities have confirmed the existence of a fake Prime Minister’s Office website, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara ...