The Bank of Japan left its key interest rate steady at around 0.25 percent as widely expected at the end of a two-day policy ...

Shohei Ohtani became the first Major League Baseball player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season on Thursday i ...

A bronze sculpture of a boy's tricycle that burned in the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 was unveiled Thursday at ...

Japan is enjoying a boom in visitor numbers and spending. Behind the scenes, however, tax evasion through abuse of ...

Wall Street romped to records Thursday as a delayed jubilation swept markets worldwide following the Federal Reserve's big ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly gained over 2 percent Friday morning, led by chip-related technology stocks tracking advances ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Washington next Thursday for talks with President Joe Biden and Vice ...

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

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 ...

Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, a candidate for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) presidential election ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's core consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in August from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.

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