Japan will request a record roughly $46b defense budget next fiscal year.

A senior US Marine Corps official apologizes for a window from a helicopter falling on the playground of an Okinawan ele...

Japan decides to freeze the assets of 19 additional North Korean organizations in a bid to exert more pressure on Pyongy...

Two new ambassadors travel to the Imperial Palace in tradition and in style by horse-drawn carriage to present their cre...

Japan's Defense Minister says the nation will purchase JSM cruise missiles capable of reaching inside North Korea.

Nippon TV obtains a draft of a government plan that would ease education costs for deserving university students and mak...

Japanese officials react with a sense of crisis to North Korea's latest missile test.

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko welcome Luxembourg's Grand Duke Henri, who is visiting Japan as a state guest with h...

Fukui Governor Issei Nishikawa says he will approve the restart of two reactors at a nuclear power plant in the prefectu...

The mayor of Osaka says San Francisco cannot remain a sister city after Mayor Edwin Lee signs off on a statue depicting ...