Japan supports a possible coordinated release of oil reserves by International Energy Agency member countries, industry ...

Japan on Wednesday marked 15 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern areas and triggered ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi referred to women only once in her recent policy speech, far fewer times compared to past leaders, raising qu ...

A giant vertical pipe at a sewer construction site in Osaka was pushed upward Wednesday, protruding more than 10 meters above ...

Tokyo stocks extended gains Wednesday, with the Nikkei index topping the key 55,000 line as concerns over prolonged crude oil supply ...

Yokozuna Hoshoryu fell to his first loss and promotion-chasing ozeki Aonishiki a damaging second at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament ...

Iran attacked commercial ships on Wednesday across the Persian Gulf and targeted Dubai International Airport, esca ...

A section chief at the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) headquarters was reprimanded for regularly adopting an angry attitude toward his ...

Fifteen years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. That decade and a half has revealed the depth of the wounds left on ...

A white, weathered store stands quietly in a deserted area of Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture, an area evacuated after ...

Olympians Liu and Gu travel very different paths, and China-US relations hang over their stories WASHINGTON (AP) -- It is as ...

Yokozuna Onosato withdrew from the ongoing Spring Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday after losing his first three bouts of the meet a ...