Shogi prodigy Fujii Sota's sealed moves written during a major title match this summer are posted on an online auction s...

Greg Kelly, a former director of Nissan Motor Co. and aide to Carlos Ghosn, claims innocence ahead of his trial in an in...

Tokyo Customs impounded more than 100,000 counterfeit items, including fake Olympic medals, between January and June of ...

Japanese Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko visit the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in a rare outing togeth...

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko celebrates her 54th birthday and says she hopes to explore new communication methods amid t...

The Japanese capital could be exposed to severe flooding if heavy rainfall led the Arakawa River to break its banks. Aut...

Officials of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward have decided to ask people not to visit the iconic Scramble Crossing to celebrate Hall...

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres says he hopes to visit Hiroshima in 2021 to attend the annual commemoration of the 1945 atom...

An unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle is found on the shores of Taketomi, a small island in Okinawa Prefecture, southw...

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca pauses clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine in Japan in step with the latest dev...