A memorial is held on the first anniversary of a stabbing rampage on students in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, in which two ...

The mayor of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture warns of a possible second wave of the novel coronavirus in the southweste...

The Japanese government approves its 2nd supplementary budget plan amounting to 117.1 trillion yen ($1 trillion dollars)...

Restaurants in Japan are attempting to adapt to the new normal amid the continued novel coronavirus pandemic. So-called ...

Tokyo Tower will reopen its two observatories to the public on Thursday. But visitors will be urged to avoid the elevato...

Beaches in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, replace "no entry" signs with ones urging social distancing.

The flow of people in areas where the state of emergency was lifted a day before including Tokyo and three neighboring p...

Police arrest a man suspected of setting fire on Kyoto Animation's studio, 10 months after the deadly arson as they wait...

A special Japan Airlines flight helps evacuate nearly 100 Taiwanese people from Moscow as the novel coronavirus spreads ...

Japan's unmanned space transport ship Kounotori 9 successfully docks at the International Space Station in the project's...