Land transactions in areas around Self-Defense Forces bases and Japan Coast Guard facilities would require prior approval from the central g...

The schools, established under a 2016 agreement, incorporate Japanese school practices such as classroom cleaning and student duty rotations...

The 34-year-old Vietnamese woman is suspected of laundering ¥30 million stolen through voice phishing in March 2025.

A Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper journalist was detained in the far eastern Sakhalin region, the day before he planned to leave Russia.

Suspect was arrested on Russia's far-eastern Sakhalin Island before being transferred to Moscow, says Russia's FSB.

Three and a half years after its start in Japan, the company brings the experience of opening trading card repacks online to overseas collec...

Several Japanese oil tankers are returning to the Middle East to pick up crude cargoes for Japan’s refineries, but none of these are moving...

Sony today announced a new version of its disc-less PlayStation 5 console. The console is getting a Midnight Black variant but it's sadly on...

The internal affairs ministry data show increases in foreign populations not only in major cities and industrial districts but also in rural...

Know all about Nishiyama Shinta, the 11-year-old highly rated Japanese youngster playing in Barcelona’s La Masia academy. Read more here.

The Japanese government on Tuesday approved three bills to boost diversification of oil supplies and energy security, including grants to co...

Crimes including rapes, assaults, hit-and-runs and drunk driving by U.S. military personnel have long triggered protests in Okinawa.

The forecast is relatively high despite concerns about the impact of prolonged rain in September.

Over more than seven months of conflict in the Persian Gulf, Japan's risk-averse refiners and shipowners have stayed away from the wider are...

The International Monetary Fund says growth will stabilize next year "as the energy shock dissipates and monetary policy gradually normalize...