TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday expressed its "full confidence" that the United States will fulfill its obligations under a ...

An evacuation order affecting a northeastern Japan city was partially lifted Friday, as the risk of the further spread of a ...

Nissan directors are due to gather on March 11 to discuss potential successors for CEO Makoto Uchida, whose position is seen ...

"To provoke trouble in the name of Taiwan is to invite trouble for Japan," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, warning ...

She is 108 but the slender, white-haired Japanese woman has no plans to retire anytime soon. Shitsui Hakoishi says the formal ...

NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- The Nagoya High Court on Friday became the fourth high court in Japan to rule the country's lack of legal recognition of same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, but upheld a lower ...

The Sanpoku Revitalization Council will launch in May the "Sanpoku Bio-Regional Park" in the Sanpoku area of Murakami City, ...

Jewher Ilham, the daughter of jailed Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti, has vowed to make people all over the world aware of the ...

Elbridge Colby, nominee for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, said Japan needed to spend far more on its defense.

More than 1,900 disasters have been attributed to tropical cyclones worldwide since 1970, resulting in more than 790,000 ...

Born on November 10, 1916, to a family of farmers in Nakagawa, Shitsui Hakoishi decided to become a barber at age 14 ...