What stood out for Japan was the low level of satisfaction with quality of life. Only 13% of Japanese pollees answered that ...

An unlucky double-bogey on the 13th spoiled a solid first round for Hideki Matsuyama at the Masters Tournament on Thursday ...

The head of a local geisha supporters' group in this northeastern Japan city has sparked controversy by saying, ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived Friday in Osaka Prefecture ahead of this weekend's opening of the 2025 ...

Nippon Professional Baseball on Friday notified its 12 clubs that players can use so-called torpedo bats in regular-season ...

The Niigata City Board of Education is starting to serve school lunch to every student at all municipal junior high schools ...

Japan will send its second medical team to Myanmar on Saturday to meet increasing health care needs in the Southeast Asian ...

The spate of high court rulings in Japan that homosexual individuals being disallowed from having their partnerships legally ...

Lightning struck a school field in Nara on the evening of April 10, sending six students to hospital, including one in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed his complaint that the decades-old U.S.-Japan security treaty is ...

Sunset over Lake Shinji is seen through the branches of blooming cherry trees at Shirakata Park in the western Japan city of ...

A fossilized tooth of a cartilaginous fish found in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido in 2013 is of a newly discovered ...