Kenichi Hosoya, left, and his wife Shiho. (Mainichi/Tatsuro Tamaki and Ayumi Iwasaki) TOKYO -- A Tokyo couple arrested on ...

A total of 4,472 people nationwide were arrested or investigated on suspicion of involvement in so-called "anonymous and fluid crime groups," where different individuals change the roles of ...

The Saitama District Court on Nov. 21 issued a provisional injunction to halt demonstrations advocating Kurdish exclusion around the office ...

Russia has supplied anti-air missiles to North Korea in exchange for it sending troops, a top South Korean official said Fr ...

Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada, recently acquitted over a 1966 quadruple murder after becoming the world's ...

The Japanese government on Friday approved an economic package worth 39 trillion yen ($250 billion), featuring subsidies to curb risi ...

The weekly average of new coronavirus cases at designated hospitals across Japan rose for the first time in three months in ...

Kioxia Holdings Corp. said Friday it will list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Dec. 18 in an initial public ...

A Japanese research team has developed a type of plastic that can break down in seawater in a bid to decrease environmental ...

China is arranging to restart its unilateral visa-free arrangement for short-term Japanese visitors, possibly later this month, sev ...

At a workshop in Tokyo, a dozen or so tourists watched as green and white wax was poured into warm water. As the liquid turned into a ...

The world's top war-crimes court issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former ...