Japan’s first domestically produced vaccine for the virus that causes COVID-19 has been cleared for regulatory approval.

WASHINGTON--U.S. intelligence shows that China’s President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s military to “be ready by ...

Entrance exams for private junior high schools in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture kicked off on Feb. 1, with the percentage of ...

The yen’s plummet to its weakest level in decades and the passing along of increased costs onto consumers have powered Japan ...

Police rearrested a man and a woman from the Philippines on suspicion of murdering a Japanese couple in Tokyo in January, the ...

The Tokyo High Court on June 6 rescinded a court order for former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay the company about 13 trillion yen ($92.6 billion) over the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Minerva University, a private four-year online school, announced that it will launch a base in the capital in September 2025 ...

As rice prices continue to rise, convenience store chain Lawson Inc. will begin selling frozen onigiri nationwide that are less expensive than fresh rice balls, the company announced on May 9.

A former farm minister received a suspended prison sentence on May 26 after being found guilty of accepting 5 million yen ...

BEIJING--China on Wednesday called comments by President Joe Biden describing Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a dictator ...

The average price at the season’s first auction for “tencha,” shade-grown leaves used to make Uji matcha, hit a record high ...

Japan reached agreement with the United States to ramp up its annual host-nation support for U.S. forces stationed in Japan, ...