The man said he began experiencing abdominal pain on June 29 while in police custody in Tokyo, and he was pronounced dead on July 2, with po...

Though the impact of Zentoshin's sudden bankruptcy is limited, it's a setback for Japan, which only recently shed its notorious cash-only im...

Japan plans to launch its first centralised intelligence body with help from Western allies.

China singled out Japan over a joint, 14-nation statement marking the 10th anniversary of an international tribunal's dismissal of Beijing's...

TOKYO, 10 juillet 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MIMARU, la première enseigne japonaise d'hébergements en appartements destinés aux familles, gérée pa...

Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in much of Asia

At Plantx's facility, light, air and water are controlled in each unit allowing the system to tailor the nutritional values and sugar conten...

Prominent Japanese soccer player Kaoru Mitoma hit a cyclist in Tokyo while driving at around 8.45 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a statemen...

X Games Chiba offered a glimpse of the X Games' future, as XC Tokyo's homegrown stars and young standouts helped put the new team competitio...

Osaka ranked seventh, while Tokyo, which improved its culture and environment score, moved up three places to reach 10th.

The move raised concerns about the possible leakage of location data on ministry employees who handle classified information, though the def...

The number of such cases decreased to 548, while the total financial damage from such scams shrank 38.3% to ¥6.17 billion.

After 20 years at the French capital's iconic Cafe de Flore, Tetsuya Yamashita returned to Tokyo to open a restaurant that captures the spir...

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