Every year, more than 180,000 couples in Japan get divorced. March has the highest number of divorces. Now, some people are ...

Japanese wheelchair tennis star Tokito Oda is gearing up for the Asian Para Games in his home prefecture of Aichi later this ...

Yuka Ito (a pseudonym), 42, who lives in eastern Japan, used to work from morning to night at the restaurant her husband ran, ...

Iran said Friday it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, but U.S. President Donald Trump said the ...

The Kumamoto Prefectural Government has created a handbook translating the local dialect for foreign residents, aiming to ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) announced on April 17 that it has chosen "kokushobi," which literally means "cruelly ...

The family of an engineer who took his own life while on assignment in China has reached a settlement with Kawasaki Heavy ...

Eight gas station operators are suspected of repeatedly coordinating diesel fuel prices for corporate customers in Tokyo in a ...

A man arrested for abandoning the body of his stepson who had been missing for weeks has confessed to strangling the boy, ...

Voices of opposition have been rising from lawmakers in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) over the government's bill ...

Japan's initial budget for defense spending and related costs for fiscal 2026 totaled about 10.6 trillion yen ($66.5 billion) ...

Honda Motor Co. said it will start selling a China-built electric vehicle in Japan for the first time Friday, as the company ...