The Japanese government said Friday that it has conducted an on-site inspection of the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo over the possible leak of so-called PFAS chemicals that may have harmful ...

The accession to a trans-Pacific free trade pact by Britain, which has overseas territories in the region, took effect Sunday, marking the first expansion of the framework since it came into force in ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya is arranging talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Dec. 25, a Japanese government source close to the matter said Saturday, in what will be his first visit to ...

A Russia-linked hacking group e-mailed multiple executives of Japanese publisher Kadokawa Corp. that it had received $2.98 million in cryptocurrency from the firm after it was hit by a massive ...

The Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka has opened the world's first attraction area based on Nintendo Co.'s popular Donkey Kong game series, seeking to attract more overseas as well as ...

A man whose parents are Unification Church members has filed a petition with a Tokyo court to change his legal name, saying he has suffered an "unbearable pain" in living under it. The man in his 30s, ...

The retrial of a man who served a seven-year sentence for the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in central Japan is expected to result in an acquittal as prosecutors will not present new ...

Japan's Prince Hisahito, the nephew of Emperor Naruhito and second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne, will attend the University of Tsukuba from April, a source at the Imperial Household Agency said ...

Survivors of the 1945 U.S. bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki spoke on Wednesday of their experiences and called for nuclear abolition at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Oslo ...

The death of Japanese actress and singer Miho Nakayama, who was found in her bathtub last week, has been ruled an accident, her agency said Sunday. Police have confirmed there is no suspicion of foul ...

Three Japanese companies have joined forces to bring Japan's iconic "ekiben" -- "bento" box meals sold at stations -- to the world, with Switzerland their first stop. "Ekiben World Team," a consortium ...

A former Saudi Arabian diplomat was referred to prosecutors Friday for allegedly touching a woman's breasts at a nightclub in Tokyo earlier this year, investigative sources said. The man in his 30s, ...