The Tokyo High Court has issued an order to dissolve the Unification Church, upholding a March 2025 decision by the Tokyo ...

Japan's pitching staff is missing Ohtani, who won't take the mound, along with Roki Sasaki, who remained at Dodgers camp following an injury-interrupted rookie season, and Yu Darvish, sidelined ...

A picture book published in Russia last year examines the experiences of Japanese civilians who were forced to leave Karafuto ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Two Japanese nationals are being detained in Iran, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday. Amid the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, Motegi informed a Diet session ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran's next supreme leader as the U.S.

OITA -- A graduate student here has been developing an "inconvenient robot" that is selfish and whose battery cannot be charged at home to encourage elderly people to go out more. The communication ...

Japan will evacuate its nationals from four Middle East countries on chartered aircraft, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said ...

The president of the operator of a sightseeing boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in 2022, leaving all 26 ...

Ukrainian dynamo Aonishiki, who is aiming to become the fastest wrestler to reach the sport's top rank of yokozuna after the upcoming ...

Her sister left for Japan full of dreams. Then, without warning, she died. March 6 marks five years since Wishma Sandamali, a 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman, died in detention at the Nagoya Regional ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday condemned Iran for its attacks on other Middle East countries resulting in civilia ...

Subaru Corp. said Thursday it will launch a new electric vehicle in Japan on April 9, the second of its kind jointly developed with T ...