While the average monthly salary at Japanese firms rose by more than 10,000 yen (about $64) in 2024 from the previous year ...

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until ...

Amid the high number of patients with mycoplasma pneumonia, characterized by persistent coughs, since around this autumn, the ...

Travelers flooded airports and major train stations in Japan on Saturday as they departed cities to spend time in their ...

TOKYO -- Police forces across Japan have been instructed to strengthen their crackdowns on malicious "host clubs," where male ...

Two third-year junior high school students here improperly accessed a teacher-only file from tablets distributed by the ...

For Japan to survive the age of its graying society and dwindling birth rate, it is essential to take steps to boost the ...

A pro-Pyongyang school for Korean students in this western Japan city has succeeded in raising funds for a new water pump ...

A 78-year-old death inmate convicted of murdering her husband and two common-law partners with poison in western Japan more ...

The government of Hokkaido, a northern island popular with tourists, will introduce a lodging tax of up to 500 yen ($3) per night f ...

Real Sociedad attacker Takefusa Kubo was named the 2024 player of the year by the Japan Pro-Footballers Association on Friday ...

Responding to the not guilty ruling in the retrial of former boxer Iwao Hakamada over a 1966 quadruple murder in Shizuoka ...