The Bank of Japan holds a two-day policy meeting concluding on Oct. 31, days after a general election where new Prime ...

HAMAMATSU--Fifty-eight years after arresting Iwao Hakamada on murder charges, Shizuoka prefectural police apologized to the 88-year-old man who spent nearly a half-century on death row for a crime he ...

Powerful ruling party politician Koichi Hagiuda is fighting strong headwinds in the Lower House election due to his ...

Americans who think of petrified hot dogs, frozen burritos and salty snacks when they imagine getting food at a gas station ...

YOKOHAMA--A suspect in a robbery-murder case here said he took part in the crime because he feared that refusal to follow ...

Wakaba Higuchi won her first Grand Prix event after more than eight years of trying Saturday night, putting together an error ...

The defense ministers of Japan, the U.K. and Italy agreed to accelerate the joint development of a next-generation fighter ...

Since the last Lower House election three years ago, Japan's security policy has undergone radical changes under the ...

Two of baseball’s most successful teams face each other starting Friday at Dodger Stadium, the Yankees coming off their 41st ...

Thirty-three percent of voters said they support the Ishiba Cabinet, compared with the 39 percent who do not support it, an ...

North Korea’s foreign minister said a new multilateral sanctions monitoring team led by the United States was “utterly ...

Empress Emerita Michiko marked her 90th birthday on Oct. 20 while continuing with daily rehabilitation training after ...