About 80% of respondents to a survey of Mount Fuji climbers approved of entry restrictions on the Yoshida Trail implemented ...

The United States and China said Monday they have agreed to slash most of their recent new tariffs on each other's imports ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese novel "Butter" by Asako Yuzuki has won the debut fiction section at the 2025 British Book Awards, ...

SoftBank Group Corp. said Tuesday it swung back to profitability in fiscal 2024 for the first time in four years with a net ...

Nissan Motor Co. logged a net loss of 670.90 billion yen ($4.5 billion) Tuesday for fiscal 2024 as it continues to grapple ...

No. 1 maegashira Oho handed his long-time rival and yokozuna Hoshoryu his first defeat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on ...

Honda's profit for the fiscal year through March slipped 24.5% from the previous year, as its vehicle sales in China dropped, ...

The father of a 15-year-old student arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly woman who was found stabbed in a street in ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new pope at a conclave held in the wake of Pope Francis' passing, assuming the name ...

The nationwide average price of rice in Japan recently marked the first decline in 18 weeks following the release of ...

TOKYO -- A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was ...

A name on a forgotten medicine bag at a crime scene has led to the arrest of a suspect in a series of burglaries across two ...