Some 4,600 new adults dressed in flashy kimonos and other attire attended a coming-of-age ceremony here on Jan. 12, one day ...

The city government of Kyoto said Tuesday it will raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck southwestern Japan on Monday, with no immediate reports of injury or damage, and ...

As Japan marks five years on Wednesday since its first confirmed case of COVID-19, government data show that over 70 million ...

Tokyo stocks fell for a fourth straight day Tuesday after briefly sending the Nikkei down over 2 percent, as concerns over ...

Yokozuna Terunofuji outlasted fellow Mongolian-born grappler Kirishima to stay a win back of the lead on Tuesday, the third ...

Transportation systems in southwest Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture continue to experience disruptions on Jan. 14, a day after a ...

Social media has become informational infrastructure used by many people today. But at the same time, inaccurate information ...

Japan attacker Takefusa Kubo scored his fourth goal of the Spanish La Liga season as Real Sociedad defeated visiting V ...

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino said Tuesday that board members will discuss whether to hike interest rates at a ...

The father of a 30-year-old woman accused of murdering of a man found decapitated in a Sapporo hotel in 2023 pleaded not ...

Novelist Lee Hoe Sung, a second-generation Korean resident of Japan who became the first foreign recipient of the country's ...