The number of children born in Japan in the first six months of 2026 rose 0.8 percent from a year earlier to 342,068, marking ...

Yamanashi Prefectural Police and tourism groups are stepping up efforts to prevent foreign tourists from accidentally ...

Kazuma Okamoto belted his 27th home run and had three RBIs as the Toronto Blue Jays whipped the Seattle Mariners 8-1 on ...

The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo, with a total of 60 now ...

President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels ...

Mikio Date of Sandwichman, one of the most popular comedy duos in Japan, will take a break to focus on treatment after he was ...

The Hiroshima Prefectural Government set out a basic policy in July on dealing with customer harassment after a staff survey ...

Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China ra ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government has unveiled a plan to use an underground facility near Tokyo Station as a shelter for ...

The Japanese yen briefly fell below 160 per U.S. dollar on Friday in New York for the first time since Japan conducted ...

The magnificent Yomeimon Gate and a family encounter In June 1878, Isabella Bird stayed in Nikko and made the most of her ...

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on Friday decided not to merge with the Komeito party into the Centrist Reform ...