While the average monthly salary at Japanese firms rose by more than 10,000 yen (about $64) in 2024 from the previous year ...

Travelers flooded airports and major train stations in Japan on Saturday as they departed cities to spend time in their ...

Amid the high number of patients with mycoplasma pneumonia, characterized by persistent coughs, since around this autumn, the ...

The government of Hokkaido, a northern island popular with tourists, will introduce a lodging tax of up to 500 yen ($3) per night f ...

TOKYO -- Police forces across Japan have been instructed to strengthen their crackdowns on malicious "host clubs," where male ...

For Japan to survive the age of its graying society and dwindling birth rate, it is essential to take steps to boost the ...

A 78-year-old death inmate convicted of murdering her husband and two common-law partners with poison in western Japan more ...

A pro-Pyongyang school for Korean students in this western Japan city has succeeded in raising funds for a new water pump ...

Two third-year junior high school students here improperly accessed a teacher-only file from tablets distributed by the ...

Real Sociedad attacker Takefusa Kubo was named the 2024 player of the year by the Japan Pro-Footballers Association on Friday ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck northeastern Japan early Saturday morning with strong shaking felt in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, the weather agency ...

Japan's Defense Ministry said Friday that its major contractor Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. began fictitious transactions ...