Prime Minister Shinzo Abe refuses to comment on whether he nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize...

A referendum campaign starts in Okinawa on landfill work for the relocation of a US air base.

Japan's government has a plan to make preschools and daycare free under a new reform to child-rearing support laws.

In Japan's capital the famous Tokyo Tower celebrates the Chinese New Year with a light display.

Finance Minister Taro Aso withdraws a remark that people who don't have kids are a problem.

Emperor Akihito gives his last Diet opening address to launch the final ordinary session of the Heisei era.

Japan's labor ministry revises the past average worker's salary by 1.2 percent after recalculating labor statistics data...

Japan's Cabinet revises the fiscal 2019 budget bill as a result of faulty labor statistics being discovered.

Kim Jong Un's close aide arrives in Beijing en route to the United States to lay the groundwork for a second US-North Ko...

A Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting again shows the deep gap between the nations.