A former employee of MUFG Bank was arrested Tuesday over the alleged theft of valuables from customers' safe deposit boxes, ...

As Japan on Jan. 15 marks five years since its first confirmed case of COVID-19, government data show that over 70 million ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck southwestern Japan on Monday, with no immediate reports of injury or damage, and ...

Naomi Osaka wins her Australian Open first-round match against Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia and then sends her best wishes to ...

The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan exceeded 10,000 for the first time in 11 years in 2024 as businesses faced a ...

The father of a 30-year-old woman accused of murdering of a man found decapitated in a Sapporo hotel in 2023 pleads not ...

Nippon Steel Corp. says it "remains the only partner" for United States Steel Corp., vowing to continue pursuing its purchase ...

North Korea has fired a projectile toward the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military said Tuesday. Last week, North Korean ...

Japan's current account surplus expanded 54.5 percent from a year earlier to 3.35 trillion yen ($21.3 billion) in November, ...

Residents of an area in southwestern Japan rocked by a strong earthquake late Monday voiced anxiety as the seismic event ...

The city government of Kyoto says it will raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations from ...

A group of Japanese ruling bloc lawmakers led by the secretaries general of the Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition ...