A US F/A-18 fighter crashes into seas off western Japan.

Battledores decorated with this year's newsmakers are unveiled in an annual year-end event in Tokyo.

Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, says he decided to invest $50 billion in the US because President-elect Donald Trump wil...

An ambitious online shoe store in central Japan gives a stale corporate ritual a makeover by greeting recruits with a zi...

A bill to legalize casinos for the first time in Japan passes the Lower House of parliament.

Japanese baseball superstar Shohei Otani renews his contract with a reported Major League posting option in 2018.

Japan's top spokesman says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming Pearl Harbor visit is to pray for the war dead, not to a...

Japan East Railway Company unveils its luxury, sleeper car train the Train Suite Shiki-shima.

Japan's Shinzo Abe will become the first sitting prime minister to visit Pearl Harbor in a trip to Hawaii December 26-27...

Residents of a city in southwestern laugh themselves seriously silly in an ancient Shinto rite to laugh off the bad and ...