A video appearing to show a male student assaulting another male student at a Tochigi Prefecture high school was posted on X ...

In her first press conference of the year on Jan. 5, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed her determination to ...

An international team including the National Cancer Center Japan analyzed trends in early-onset cancers diagnosed in 44 ...

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The heads of Japan's major business groups on Tuesday expressed hope for dialogue with China as bilateral ties remain ...

Japan's key stock indexes closed at all-time highs on Tuesday as buying was spurred amid expectations that U.S. companies ...

Speed skater Wataru Morishige will be one of Japan's two flagbearers at the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Winter ...

Traffic accidents left 2,547 people dead in Japan in 2025, marking the lowest figure since comparable data became available ...

Japanese pitcher Tatsuya Imai expressed his hopes of winning the World Series with the Houston Astros as he was officially ...

A court fined Japanese actor Ryoko Hirosue 700,000 yen ($4,470) for negligent driving resulting in injury after she rear-en ...

TOKYO -- In Tokyo, some people live in a special building called a "collective house." Here, single people, families, and ...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO ...