KOBE (Kyodo) -- Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito on Thursday faced a no-confidence motion by prefectural assembly members over abuse ...

A Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds earl ...

The introduction of an optional separate surname system in Japan, which would allow Japanese couples to choose whether to ...

A Japanese communication equipment maker said Thursday that walkie-talkies which simultaneously exploded in Lebanon the ...

The president of a tourist boat operator was referred to prosecutors Thursday over the sinking of a vessel off Hokkaido in ...

TOKYO -- Seven people including members of "Chinese Dragon," a loosely organized quasi crime syndicate, were arrested on Sept ...

HIGASHIIZU, Shizuoka -- Three white tiger cubs were unveiled to press at a zoo here on Sept. 18, six days after their birth.

A 23-year-old police officer in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido was arrested on the spot for allegedly ...

On September 17, which corresponds to August 15 in the old lunar calendar, the harvest moon was visible across the country.

A shinkansen stopped on a route between Tokyo and northeastern Japan, the railway operator JR East said Thursday, with the ...

In late June as the sun beat down on Tokyo's Ginza district, nearly 50 people stood lined up outside an outlet selling ...

Mie Prefectural Police on Sept. 18 arrested a 32-year-old Filipino factory worker on suspicion of abandoning the body of a ...