The Tokyo High Court is expected to decide in early March concerning whether to order the Unification Church to disband....

The 76th Sapporo Snow Festival opened on February 4.This giant snow sculpture at the main Odori site features a prehisto...

The defense team for Yamagami Tetsuya, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo,...

On February 3, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako met with Nepal’s President Ramchandra Paudel and his wife at the Impe...

Behind the rise in fraud cases in Japan lies a ‘dark market’ with a scale of 7 billion US dollars (1 trillion Japanese y...

Tokyo police arrested the 37-year-old president of Albatross, the company that operates resignation agency Momuri, and h...

On February 2, the yen was sold in the foreign exchange market, temporarily weakening to the mid-155 yen level per US do...

Japan’s deep-sea scientific drilling vessel Chikyu has successfully recovered mud containing rare earths from the seabed...

On the morning of February 1, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae abruptly canceled her scheduled appearance on a television d...

Following a request from Aomori City, Governor of Aomori Prefecture Miyashita Soichiro formally asked the commander of t...