With Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Japan's potential involvement in a Taiwan emergency sparking tensions with ...

Legislation aimed at expanding the use of pre-marriage family names to alleviate inconveniences in social activities is ...

Kochi University in this western Japan city has installed the first vending machine at a Japanese college that allows holders ...

Japan's revised "equal pay for equal work" guidelines will require that nonregular workers who work continuously receive the ...

Japan aims to reduce clothes waste by 25 percent by fiscal 2030 compared with 10 years before to address the environmental ...

Stuffed toys of the popular Osaka Expo mascot are cheering up children fighting illness at a hospital in this western Japan ...

Japanese right-hander Tatsuya Imai has agreed to a three-year, $54 million deal with the Houston Astros, MLB.com reported ...

About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar's Ne ...

A Ukrainian drone strike killed 24 people and wounded at least 50 more as they celebrated the New Year in a Russian-occupied ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter, believed to be called Ju Ae, has been shown visiting a state mausoleum for the ...

ROME (AP) -- Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries "bloodied by ...

Japan Post Holdings Co. is considering merging 10 to 20 percent of its roughly 3,000 nationwide mail and parcel collection ...