Legislation aimed at expanding the use of pre-marriage family names to alleviate inconveniences in social activities is ...

The travel rush of people returning from year-end and New Year holidays in Japan peaked on Saturday, with shinkansen bullet ...

Aoyama Gakuin University extended its lead from the previous day's outbound stage to win the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden ...

Snow fell in central Tokyo on Friday, the season's first snowfall in the capital, the country's weather agency said.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday that she and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to work toward meeting ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nearly 40 percent of Japanese people aged 20 or under prefer to receive New Year money gifts known as ...

Heavy snowfall caused a traffic jam to form Friday on a highway in western Japan that stretched for up to 23 kilometers ...

The small town of Biei in Hokkaido made headlines in January last year when it cut down a row of photogenic white birch ...

In response to drones' advancing capabilities, a report by a panel of experts convened by Japan's National Police Agency has ...

At least seven explosions rang out and low-flying aircraft swept through the capital of Venezuela early Saturday, with the ...

The number of Muslims in Japan is growing. In 2024, there were about 420,000 Muslims in Japan, about 0.3% of the total ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- Right-hander Tatsuya Imai and the Houston Astros finalized their $54 million, three-year contract on Friday.