Three major Japanese shipping firms agree to spin off and merge their container shipping operations under a new joint ve...

Foreign visitors continue to visit Japan in droves taking the number of overseas visitors over 20 million this year for ...

Japanese YouTube sensation Pikotaro receives a Guinness World Record for "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen," the shortest song ev...

Japan, the US and other nuclear powers vote against a United Nations proposal to discuss a ban on nuclear weapons.

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi talks to students from the International Space Station before he heads back to earth at...

Top officials from Japan, the US, and South Korea met in Tokyo and agreed to put more pressure on North Korea, which con...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gets an enthusiastic response criticizing the US before Filipinos in Tokyo.

Film director and comedian Takeshi Kitano receives the French Legion of Honor.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells Nippon TV peaceful dialogue is the only way to settle the South China Sea dis...

Retail giant Aeon is looking to get consumers into the spirit of spending by trying to transplant the U.S. shopping cust...