Nippon Professional Baseball on Friday notified its 12 clubs that players can use so-called torpedo bats in regular-season ...

What stood out for Japan was the low level of satisfaction with quality of life. Only 13% of Japanese pollees answered that ...

The head of a local geisha supporters' group in this northeastern Japan city has sparked controversy by saying, ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived Friday in Osaka Prefecture ahead of this weekend's opening of the 2025 ...

The Niigata City Board of Education is starting to serve school lunch to every student at all municipal junior high schools ...

The spate of high court rulings in Japan that homosexual individuals being disallowed from having their partnerships legally ...

Japan will send its second medical team to Myanmar on Saturday to meet increasing health care needs in the Southeast Asian ...

A spotted seal was born at Marinepia Nihonkai, an aquarium in the city of Niigata, on April 4. The baby seal is a female and ...

The head of Japan's junior coalition partner said Friday he does not rule out anything to support the economy, hit by rising ...

Lightning struck a school field in Nara on the evening of April 10, sending six students to hospital, including one in ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday instructed his close aide Ryosei Akazawa to conduct upcoming tariff negotiations with ...

Sunset over Lake Shinji is seen through the branches of blooming cherry trees at Shirakata Park in the western Japan city of ...