Japan and Britain sign a bilateral free trade agreement with a view to putting it into effect in January.

Japan's Crown Princess Kiko sends an English video message to an online international conference on lung health.

A hospital in western Japan succeeds in the world's first transplant surgery using a retinal sheet made from iPS cells t...

Japan's new LCC "ZIPAIR" flies its first passenger-flight.

Researchers use the supercomputer Fugaku to simulate how droplets of the novel coronavirus spread.

Pride House Tokyo opens as Japan's first permanent facility for sexual minorities.

Chinese boats have remained in Japanese water around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for the longest time.

Arrangements are being made for International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach to visit Japan in November.

The foreign ministers of Japan, the United States, Australia and India meet in Tokyo for the first international ministe...

Japanese fashion designer Takada Kenzo has died of coronavirus disease in France at age 81.