The number of foreign employees in Japan reached a record 2.3 million as of the end of last October, maintaining a growth rate of 12.4 percent, the same as the previous year, government data shows, as ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are planning to make an official weeklong visit to Mongolia in early July, government ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is arranging a visit to the United States for his first in-person summit with ...

A sinkhole at an intersection near Tokyo that swallowed a truck collapsed further and merged with a second opening that had ...

A London court gives the green light to the extradition of two British men wanted by Japanese authorities in connection with ...

Yuki Kawamura is bound for next month's NBA All-Star weekend after being named as the top vote-getter in the fan ballot for ...

A lawyer for an 88-year-old man acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case has sought about 217 million yen ($1 ...

Rail fans bid farewell to one of Japan's iconic "Doctor Yellow" bullet trains, used to diagnose faults on the country's ...

A man charged with the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio has dropped his appeal to overturn his death ...

A Japanese weekly magazine says it has corrected its December story claiming a Fuji Television Network Inc. official invited ...

A commercial airplane operated by a low-cost carrier caught fire while preparing for takeoff at an international airport in ...

A record 527 children attending elementary, junior high and senior high schools in Japan died by suicide last year, up 14 ...