More than 700 runners wearing costumes have competed in a relay marathon combined with a wine party in Fukuoka City, western ...

The Nikkei 225 index surged in Monday morning trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as strong economic data out of the US ...

A Japanese business group is calling for more cooperation with Taiwan in semiconductors, artificial intelligence and other ...

Japanese police have arrested 12 people for allegedly defrauding a woman in central Japan by making scam calls from their ...

The Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival kicked off on Saturday evening in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The event in the ...

The archbishop of Tokyo will be promoted to cardinal, becoming the seventh Japanese to be appointed to the second highest ...

Japan's new industry minister has urged the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear-power plant to tackle the facility's ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will use a leader-level meeting in Germany to present his "Victory Plan" ...

A large number of Jewish residents rallied in Paris on the eve of the first anniversary of Hamas' large-scale attack on ...

Delegates from across North Korea are expected to discuss defining South Korea as the "No.1 hostile country" in the North's ...

A repatriated Japanese woman abducted by North Korea has collected signatures calling for the early return of other victims.

Workers have moved furniture and other items to storage from a temporary housing complex for quake survivors in central Japan ...