Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide becomes Japan's new Prime Minister, succeeding Abe Shinzo.

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

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

A Japanese man wanted in connection with a murder case is arrested upon his return from South Africa.

Japan sends a third team of experts to Mauritius to help local authorities deal with the aftermath of a massive oil spil...

Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has had close ties with U.S. President Donald Trump and had been working on ...

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urges Japan and other countries to support her in seeking a redo o...

For the first time ever, TV camera crews go into a former army headquarter that lies beneath Shuri Castle in Okinawa.

South Korea removes tariffs on imports of Japan-made pneumatic valves following the World Trade Organization's decision ...

Organizers scale back the event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II amid the novel coronaviru...