The number of foreign visitors to Japan in July rose 4.4 percent from a year earlier to 3.4 million, a record for the month, ...

Social media has been abuzz with users in Japan reporting sightings of a mysterious object that briefly lit up skies acro ...

U.S. President Donald Trump recently met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy and proposed a solution for the war ...

TOKYO -- As part of its heatstroke prevention efforts, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has launched the "Tokyo heat map" in ...

Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki said Wednesday that he will not seek reelection in the upcoming gubernatorial race, calling ...

The traditional "Ubagami Daijingu Togyosai" event, considered the oldest festival in Hokkaido, was held in the town of Esashi ...

Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain Hama-sushi Co. announced on Aug. 19 that a 3-year-old girl developed symptoms including a ...

At least 520,000 people across Japan could be asked to evacuate for a week if authorities issue a special alert that the risk ...

Israel gave final approval for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the te ...

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has handed the then Machida Police Station chief the most severe reprimand over ...

The White House on Tuesday launched an official TikTok account despite U.S. lawmakers deciding the popular short-form ...

TICAD is a Japan-hosted international aid conference that dates back to 1993 and was last held in Tunisia in 2022. China has ...