The operators of Nozomi bullet train services connecting Tokyo and Hakata in southwestern Japan are considering reducing the ...

Japanese police on Nov. 27 raided four locations in Chiba, Saitama and Osaka prefectures that were used as storage points for ...

The Tokyo High Court on Nov. 27 ordered a baby product manufacturer to pay 26.66 million yen (approx. $176,000) to the ...

ICHIHARA, Chiba -- A judo instructor who allegedly forced a 10-year-old boy to drink soy sauce during a "punishment game" has ...

A temporary ceasefire has been reached in the Middle East, where conflict had been intensifying. The critical question now is ...

Japan's parliament convened an extraordinary session Thursday for deliberations on a supplementary budget to help ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday its global production for October fell 0.8 percent from a year earlier to 893,164 units, hit ...

Tokyo stocks ended higher Thursday after a news report that U.S. restrictions on semiconductor equipment sales to China would ...

Thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants returned home Wednesday as a ceasefire took ...

Donald Trump loved to use tariffs on foreign goods during his first presidency. But their impact was barely noticeable in the ...

The Japanese government is eyeing new government bond issuance of 6.7 trillion yen ($44 billion) to fund a supplementary ...

Former top Japanese currency diplomat Masato Kanda has been selected as the next president of the Asian Development Bank, the ...