North Korea launched what it called a space satellite toward the south on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, prompting ...

The Making of Harry Potter is currently under construction at the site of the now-defunct Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo's ...

Damage to a pedestal inside the No. 1 reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is more critical than ...

Japan’s public broadcaster faced accusations it may have violated the Broadcast Law by earmarking around 900 million yen ...

Lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties criticized Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s tardiness in dismissing his son, ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday his son is resigning as his executive policy secretary to take responsibility for ...

Yet another mix-up has come to light in the My Number card system more formally known as Individual Number Card after at ...

NAGOYA--A district court here ruled on May 30 that the government’s refusal to recognize same sex-marriage is ...

The Bank of Japan’s government bond holdings surged 10.6 percent from a year earlier to a record 581 trillion yen ($4.15 ...

Typhoon Mawar lashed Taiwan's eastern coast with wind, rains and large waves Tuesday but largely skirted the island after ...

The assailant who killed two police officers here last week shot them at close range with shotgun slugs, powerful ammunition ...

Two days after he won the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival for “Kaibutsu” (Monster), screenwriter Yuji ...