The world's longest-serving death row inmate who has been acquitted in the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shizuoka ...

Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi said a woman he does not know had intruded into his parliamentary residence unit in ...

Seven candidates for the successor to Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee gave presentations behind closed doors at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland on January ...

A 58-year-old man has been arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police under the suspicion of sexually assaulting a ...

Nippon TV has learned that Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are considering an official visit to Mongolia in July ...

The Japanese government decided on January 28 to recommend archaeological sites in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, to ...

People in Hiroshima expressed disappointment that the Japanese government is considering not attending an upcoming ...

The death sentence for Aoba Shinji over the fatal arson attack on Kyoto Animation's studio has been finalized.Aoba set ...

Rescue efforts for a driver continued after a truck fell into a 10-meter-deep sinkhole that appeared on a road in ...

A new massive sinkhole appeared on January 29, prompting officials to call on locals to evacuate as rescue efforts for ...

The Japanese government is considering not attending the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer.

A Chinese court has sentenced a 52-year-old man to death for stabbing three people, one fatally, in Suzhou near ...