The average monthly pay for people working in Japan stood at 318,299 yen in 2020, down 1.2 percent from a year earlier.

The Maritime Self-Defense Force’s submarine collides with a commercial ship off southwestern Japan.

Masks have become an everyday necessity in the coronavirus age, and now there are masks for musical instruments.

The approval rating for Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide’s Cabinet stood at 39 percent in February’s public opinion poll by...

Police arrest Harada Eiko, former CEO of McDonald’s Japan, for allegedly beating his wife.

Life-size "Hina" dolls are on display at a historic inn in Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, for the doll festiva...

Japan conducts its second mass antibody tests but finds no signs of herd immunity against the coronavirus.

Japan’s farm exports hit a record high for the eighth year in a row in 2020.

Reports of suspected child abuse cases rise in Japan in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, while the number of criminal...

The U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect, but Japan is in a dilemma over the pact despite ...