Japanese prosecutors do not plan to appeal the recent acquittal in the retrial of a former professional boxer who was ...

The focus of Japan's Oct. 27 House of Representatives election will be to eliminate distrust in the country's politics, but ...

New Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday took a cautious stance on allowing same-sex couples to marry in Japan, the only ...

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) has made it clear in its campaign pledges for the upcoming ...

Aso's remarks were made during a ceremony in Tokyo related to Taiwan. Communist-led Beijing and Taipei have been governed ...

Japan's Diet enacted Tuesday a law to pay 15 million yen ($101,000) each to victims of forced sterilization surgery under a ...

Tokyo stocks broke a three-day winning streak Tuesday as investors locked in recent gains amid concerns over tensions in the ...

The Israeli military said Tuesday it had killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike on Beirut, a day after the one-year ...

Former Empress Michiko successfully underwent surgery for a broken right femur Tuesday morning, the Imperial Household Agency ...

A person believed to be involved in a string of robberies in Tokyo and neighboring Saitama Prefecture was arrested late on ...

Japan's real wages in August fell 0.6 percent from a year earlier, marking the first decline in three months, as wage growth ...

The number of cases where companies in Japan went under due to labor shortages stemming from factors including employee ...