A passenger on a bullet train that had stopped at Okayama Station on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line on Jan. 5 pushed an emergency ...

As labor-strapped Japan faces a growing exodus of foreign workers due to low wages and other employment challenges, some com ...

Japanese snowboarder Taiga Hasegawa picked up his second World Cup big air win of the season Sunday in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Tokyo stocks dropped Monday morning, the first trading day of 2025, as investors took profits following the Nikkei stock ...

North Korea on Monday fired at least one ballistic missile into its eastern seas, South Korea's military said, extending it ...

Nippon Steel Corp. will hold a press conference Tuesday morning following U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to block its ...

Two people died and three others were missing after a fishing boat with 20 people aboard capsized off Ibaraki Prefecture in ...

Ali Wong, who reportedly previously turned down the chance to host the Globes, won for best stand-up comedy performance. For ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Stocks opened lower Monday, led by declines in auto and steel makers on the first trading day of 2025.

A bluefin tuna fetched 207 million yen ($1.3 million) during the year's first auction at a popular fish market in Tokyo on ...

Japan's elementary and middle schools could shed five minutes per period under curriculum guideline revisions the education ...

By blocking a Japanese company's takeover of U.S. Steel, President Joe Biden said he was protecting good jobs in the American ...