Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito has been diagnosed with heart failure, while Empress Emerita Michiko has undergone lase...

Japan's Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo admits he has had relations with members of the Unification Church.

Prosecutors raid places related to a former member of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee executive bo...

Japan's Justice Ministry executes a death row inmate who killed seven people and injured ten others in an indiscriminate...

Japan has confirmed the first case of monkeypox in a man in his 30s who recently visited Europe.

The Japanese government holds a meeting to prepare for a possible outbreak of monkeypox in the country.

Residents in affected areas evacuate after the Sakurajima volcano erupted in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan.

The Sakurajima volcano erupts in southwestern Japan, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to raise the volcano aler...

Japan's top government spokesman Matsuno Hirokazu has tested positive for the coronavirus.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has begun giving the fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine to medical workers and oth...