The first batch of coronavirus vaccines arrives in Japan, with a health ministry panel approving their use in the countr...

Mori Yoshiro resigns as president of the Tokyo Games organizing committee amid growing criticism over his sexist remarks...

Survivors and bereaved families of victims of the fatal collision between high school fishing training ship Ehime Maru a...

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

Thousands gather in Tokyo to protest against a coup d’etat carried out by the Myanmar military.

IOC Vice President Anita DeFrantz touches on the possibility of holding the Tokyo Olympics without spectators in an inte...

Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide speaks on the phone with new U.S. President Joe Biden, with the two agreeing to s...

Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu and new U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talk on the phone and agree ...

A high-ranking U.N. official says the taking into effect of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons sends a mes...

Atomic-bomb survivors in Nagasaki welcome the entering into force of a U.N. nuclear weapon ban treaty.