A 4-year-old boy died here during the early hours of March 15 after likely falling from the hotel room where he was staying ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- he recent Tokyo Marathon featured a nonbinary division for the first time as part of an effort by organizers ...

A third grader in this western Japan city who dreams of becoming a robot engineer in the future has successfully passed the ...

Activist Paul Watson has revealed a plan to take action against Iceland's whaling activities in June, while continuing to ...

A Japanese man has been sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 21,000 Belarusian rubles ($6,400) for espionage, the ...

Japan's top prosecution office said Monday that the scope of recorded interrogations will be expanded in April amid growing ...

Japanese men's gymnastics great Akinori Nakayama, who won a total of six gold medals at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics, has died, ...

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said he told his Group of Seven counterparts that the U.S. decision to impose ...

The names of around 4,200 victims of the indiscriminate air raids on Tokyo by U.S. bombers near the end of World War II will ...

Eleven approximately 8-meter-long kagotaimatsu torches made an appearance in the omizutori ceremony to herald the arrival of ...

The Japanese Association of Anatomists (JAA) and two other organizations have set ethical guidelines for students and doctors ...

Nearly 60% of respondents to a Mainichi Shimbun poll conducted on March 15 and 16 indicated that Japan should take ...