The number of foreign visitors to Japan in July rose 4.4 percent from a year earlier to 3.4 million, a record for the month, ...

Born without fingers on his left hand, high school baseball player Haruto Yokoyama wears his glove on his right hand. When he ...

The leaders of Belarus and Iran signed new agreements on Wednesday to boost bilateral ties in key areas including defense, ...

Regarding a case in which a homeless man died in this central Japan city after the local fire department failed to dispatch an ambulance ...

The Japanese government has set its fiscal 2026 budgetary request guidelines, which will serve as the rules for ministries ...

Japan is considering announcing a 10 trillion yen ($68 billion) decade-long private investment target for India when Prime ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of Korean poet Yun Dong Ju's death in a Japanese prison for his involvement in the ...

Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively ...

SAPPORO -- With Japan set to introduce a revised law on the "emergency shooting" of bears and wild boars in urban areas on Sept. 1, the Hokkaido Ryouyuukai hunters' association has notified all its 71 ...

For about a year, some residents here have been working on transforming carp streamers and wind socks that are traditionally displayed o ...

Bandai Spirits Co. on Wednesday unveiled a hands-on museum set to open Sept. 2 inside its plastic model production plant in Shizuo ...

A 24-year-old South Korean man has been arrested for allegedly making a bootleg recording of the latest animated film adaptation of t ...