All lanes on the Kan-etsu Expressway linking Tokyo and Niigata Prefecture were open for traffic on Dec. 28, two days after 67 ...

Undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue outpointed Alan David Picasso on Saturday to set up a potential ...

Some 750 years after the Kamakura Shogunate fended off foreign invasions of the Kyushu region, the ancient capital of ...

The Foreign Ministry plans to double its Official Security Assistance to like-minded nations facing the growing threat of ...

Voters went to the polls Sunday for the initial phase of Myanmar’s first general election in five years, held under the supervision of its military government while a civil war rages throughout much ...

The first batch of locally brewed wines was sampled from among thousands of bottles aging in an underground passage at the ...

Nearly 15 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, air radiation doses have dropped significantly in Fukushima Prefecture, ...

Japan is moving to double the required length of stay in the country for foreign nationals to acquire Japanese citizenship ...

KYOTO--Offering passengers the joy of setting out on a scenic journey, the panoramic train Mai debuted on Dec. 1, operated by ...

A signboard critical of “me first” actions has won an annual contest featuring fairly common yet often overlooked fixtures ...

Core consumer inflation in Japan’s capital ‌slowed in December on moderating ‍cost pressure for food but stayed above the ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government installed a temporary partition in a new public restroom in Ueno Park on Dec. 26, just two ...