A Chinese survey ship was spotted again within Japan's exclusive economic zone off the island of Amami Oshima in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, according to the Japan Coast Guard. The JCG's ...

Ryosuke Takashima, mayor of Ashiya, a city in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, is among Time's 100 most influential emerging people, according to the list released by the U.S. magazine on Tuesday.

Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka has hit combined 200 career wins in the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) and U.S. Major League Baseball, becoming the fourth Japanese professional ...

Talks between Japan's ruling and opposition parties have stalled over a proposal to scrap the provisional gasoline tax surcharge. The slowdown is widely attributed to the political lull caused by the ...

Japan's agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a candidate in the Liberal Democratic Party's upcoming leadership election, has said that expanding the ruling coalition, currently made up of the LDP ...

Next-generation E10 series Shinkansen bullet trains of East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, are expected to be delivered to India in 2029 for a planned high-speed rail link in the South Asian nation, a ...

Tokyo, Oct. 1 (Jiji Press)--Business sentiment among large manufacturers in Japan improved for two consecutive quarters, the Bank of Japan's "Tankan" survey for September showed Wednesday. The headlin ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force and the Royal Australian Air Force kicked off their "Bushido Guardian" joint exercise in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Tuesday. The Japan-Australia exercise ...

Undeterred by major setbacks that recently befell the famed "Kishu ume," or plums grown in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama, "umeboshi" pickled plum makers are working on developing new produc ...

Sanae Takaichi and Shinjiro Koizumi are neck-and-neck in support among rank-and-file members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ahead of Saturday's party leadership election, a Jiji Press survey ...

An elderly woman was stabbed at an apartment in Machida, Tokyo, on Tuesday evening and died shortly after being transported to hospital. Officers from Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department rushed to ...

European leader in space infrastructure, payload integration and mission operations joins Starlab to strengthen international ...