One feared consequence of Japan's lowering of the age of adulthood to 18 in 2022 appears to have come true -- a rise in young ...

A-27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a woman's apartment in Osaka Prefecture by deducing the ...

In late June as the sun beat down on Tokyo's Ginza district, nearly 50 people stood lined up outside an outlet selling ...

Shohei Ohtani 1st in MLB with 50 homers and 50 steals (Kyodo) ...

Mie Prefectural Police on Sept. 18 arrested a 32-year-old Filipino factory worker on suspicion of abandoning the body of a ...

A Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds earl ...

The introduction of an optional separate surname system in Japan, which would allow Japanese couples to choose whether to ...

A shinkansen stopped on a route between Tokyo and northeastern Japan, the railway operator JR East said Thursday, with the ...

The assembly of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on Thursday unanimously adopted a no-confidence motion against Gov.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's fund management body donated a total of 100 million yen (approx. $700,000) to the Liberal ...

The United Nations chief urged the world's divided nations on Wednesday to compromise and approve a blueprint to address ...

The Bank of Japan began a two-day policy meeting Thursday amid growing expectations that the central bank would keep interest ...