About 80% of respondents to a survey of Mount Fuji climbers approved of entry restrictions on the Yoshida Trail implemented ...

Yoshiaki Watanabe hit a walk-off sacrifice fly as the Rakuten Eagles ended their losing streak at four games with a 4-3 ...

The United States and China said Monday they have agreed to slash most of their recent new tariffs on each other's imports ...

Around half of respondents to a survey believed at least one of 15 instances of false information on social media after ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese novel "Butter" by Asako Yuzuki has won the debut fiction section at the 2025 British Book Awards, ...

No. 1 maegashira Oho handed his long-time rival and yokozuna Hoshoryu his first defeat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on ...

Lawyers representing former Japanese television personality Masahiro Nakai have disputed a third-party committee's finding ...

The father of a 15-year-old student arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly woman who was found stabbed in a street in ...

A name on a forgotten medicine bag at a crime scene has led to the arrest of a suspect in a series of burglaries across two ...

TOKYO -- A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was ...

Nissan Motor Co. logged a net loss of 670.90 billion yen ($4.5 billion) Tuesday for fiscal 2024 as it continues to grapple ...

The Nikkei stock index climbed for the fourth straight day to end at a 2.5-month high above 38,000 on Tuesday, as caution ...