The Nagasaki Lantern Festival, where lanterns illuminate the winter night sky over the city of Nagasaki, began on February 6.

The advisory panel to Japan's justice minister on Thursday submitted an outline of proposed amendments to the criminal ...

People in Japan were swindled out of a record 324.11 billion yen ($2.1 billion) in 2025 in investment and romance scams on ...

Japan's main opposition force, the Centrist Reform Alliance, elected Junya Ogawa, 54, as its new head on Friday, as the newly ...

Japan and the United States agreed Thursday to speed up selection of the first round of investment projects under a $550 ...

The pair of animals chosen as mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are stoats -- weasel-like creatures ...

Even though Japan has its first female prime minister, the number of women elected to the House of Representatives has declined. The country remains f ...

KYOTO -- Geiko and their "maiko" apprentices will perform an elegant dance drama based on the European folk tale "Cinderella" ...

With bear sightings and incidents increasing nationwide, a research team at Akita University focusing on the elderly will ...

KOBE -- A 36-year-old company employee living in Tokyo experienced being a "mayor for a day" at Nishinomiya City Hall in Hyogo Prefecture on Feb. 10 as a return gift for donating 1 million yen ...

A type 2 diabetes drug approved by Japan's health ministry is being taken by young people seeking rapid weight loss, a ...

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych pushed at the limits of the International Olympic Committee's rules on freedom of express ...