A 22-year-old Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) sailor was arrested in Nara Prefecture on March 11 for allegedly trying to extort 300,0 ...

(AP) -- Wall Street's losses deepened Friday as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting up inflationary pressure on the global economy. The S&P 500 fell ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- East Japan Railway Co. on Saturday raised its fares by an average 7.1 percent, its first hike aimed at boosting revenue since the major rail company's privatization in 1987. JR East ...

The Japanese government on Friday approved a plan to consider legalizing the use of birth surnames alone in official ...

The biggest new restaurant trend is small. Special menus with petite, less expensive portions are popping up all over, from ...

Setting aside criticism of preemptive strikes, which violate international law, and placing all responsibility for the ...

Alpine sit skier Momoka Muraoka's 11th career Paralympic medal at this year's Milan Cortina games has made her Jap ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start for Japan in Saturday's World Baseball Classic quarterfinal against Venezuela at Miami's loanD ...

The Tokyo Aqua Symphony, one of the world's largest fountains, will begin operating at Odaiba Marine Park in Minato Ward on March 28, the Tok ...

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s Juvenile Support Division on March 12 referred a 15-year-old junior high school girl to prosecutor ...

The White House has posted a video that appears to use footage from a popular Nintendo Co. sports simulation video game to tout the r ...

A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a man to 14 years in prison for attempting to rape an intoxicated woman after forcing her to ta ...