About 80% of respondents to a survey of Mount Fuji climbers approved of entry restrictions on the Yoshida Trail implemented ...

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for ...

The workload at the House of Representatives' Legislative Bureau, which supports lawmakers in drafting and managing bills, ...

Visitors to Japan have cited the lack of trash bins in public areas, including at train stations, as the biggest ...

Lawyers representing former Japanese television personality Masahiro Nakai have disputed a third-party committee's finding ...

The father of a 15-year-old student arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly woman who was found stabbed in a street in ...

The nationwide average price of rice in Japan recently marked the first decline in 18 weeks following the release of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new pope at a conclave held in the wake of Pope Francis' passing, assuming the name ...

Japan is seeing a boom in gold investment amid heightening concerns over a global economic slowdown caused by U.S. President ...

Struggling Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. plans to cut around 20,000 jobs globally, more than 10,000 above the reduction ...

TOKYO -- A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was ...