Novelist Higashino Keigo and poet Tawara Machi are among recipients of the Japanese government's Medal of Honor for autu...

Princess Kako heads to Peru to celebrate the 150th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Japan and Peru.

An 86-year-old man is arrested after shooting two people at a hospital, and taking two women hostage in a post office fo...

Epic Games is set to pay 3.5 billion yen in back taxes to Japan.

A pod of dolphins is spotted off an artificial island in western Japan.

The Bank of Japan decides to allow yields for 10-year government bonds to surpass 1 percent in response to the weakening...

Passengers on the Tokaido shinkansen bullet trains will no longer be able to purchase food and drinks from carts on boar...

Hundreds of officers patrol Shibuya as the city braces for Halloween.

Japan's Defense Ministry says that a woman who belonged to the Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force quit after she was fo...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako watched the autumn Tenno Sho, a Grade 1 horse race held in the Tokyo suburbs.