The Nara District Court has sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, to life imprisonment for assassinating former Prime Minister ...

A Tokyo court on Thursday sentenced the former chairman of major publisher Kadokawa Corp. to a suspended prison term for bribing a To ...

More than 160 lawmakers are expected to join Japan's new "centrist" opposition party, as it held a convention on Thursday to mark its official launch ahead of a snap House of Representatives election ...

A Brazilian man who runs a tour company was arrested by Tokyo police on Wednesday on suspicion of operating illegally modified and po ...

The leader of Japanese opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi, Taro Yamamoto, 51, announced on the party's YouTube channel on Jan. 21 that he is ...

Tokyo stocks climbed Thursday, with the Nikkei briefly gaining more than 1,000 points and snapping a five-day losing streak, ...

A man suspected of murdering his pregnant former girlfriend in this eastern Japan city in December 2025 after stalking her was arrested Jan. 2 ...

In December 2025, Matsuya conducted an online survey among its email newsletter subscribers regarding Valentine's Day. The ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced at a Jan. 19 press conference that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party would ...

As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe this week over President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials ...

The average asking price for a 70-square-meter used condominium in Tokyo's 23 wards in 2025 surpassed 100 million yen ($630,000) for ...

The U.S. stock market bounced back from its worst day since October on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said he reached ...