SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told a visiting top Russian official that his country will “unconditionally ...

When I come across information in a newspaper or on the internet about a subject that piques my journalistic curiosity, I ...

The traditional Misoma Hajime Sai ceremony, in which sacred trees are felled for timber to house Shinto deities at the famed ...

Three major convenience store chains will begin selling older rice released from government reserves, with the first batch ...

Nintendo’s Switch 2 launched on Thursday and is widely expected to be in short supply globally amid pent-up demand for the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shifted policy and instructed related ministers to recruit researchers seeking to leave the ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visited Okinawa Prefecture on June 4 ahead of the 80th ...

Shigeo Nagashima, a true giant in Japanese baseball and one of the country’s most popular athletes, died of pneumonia at a ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...

Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on June 3 that the government is considering buying back stockpiled rice from ...

OSAKA--A Japanese man in ninja attire was calling out in perfect English to passers-by at the Japan Expo venue here in late ...

The government has decided on a basic policy direction for the huge volume of contaminated soil resulting from the 2011 ...