A Japan Air Self-Defense Force training plane crashed shortly after taking off from a base in central Japan, the government ...

A 15-year-old boy who was arrested May 12 on suspicion of murder in this eastern Japan city has told police that if he ...

Children in Japan continue to suffer poor mental health, with the country ranking 32nd among 43 developed and emerging ...

The United States and China on Wednesday slashed most of their recent new tariffs on each other's imports and suspended part ...

TOKYO -- Major Japanese retailer Aeon Co. announced May 13 it will release a new 100% California-grown rice labeled "Karoyaka ...

A Japanese lawmaker's aide lured a female reporter by suggesting he would provide her with information, then sexually ...

A bag containing an inflammable signal flame tube fell from a U.S. military helicopter over the Motobu peninsula in northern ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit calling on the central government to pay 16.5 million yen ($112,000) in ...

A 38-year-old former public kindergarten employee was arrested on suspicion of secretly filming the naked bodies of ...

Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony logged an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March on healthy ...

A "submerged forest," which appears only during spring, is now at its best in Lake Shirakawa in the town of Iide, Yamagata ...

A body found inside a massive sinkhole that opened at an intersection near Tokyo three months ago has been confirmed as that ...