The Imperial Household Agency is making arrangements for Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to visit Kumamoto Prefecture in late September, which marked the 10th anniversary in April of a pai ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi during a telephone conversation early this month that there would be delays in the delivery of the US-made Tomahawk ...

Japan's Tao Okamoto and France's Virginie Efira won the best actress award in the competition category at the 79th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for their roles in the film "All of a Sudden" direct ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Xizang. Liang Junyan, a researcher at the Institute of ...

Crabs walking sideways originated from an ancestor that roamed the Earth some 200 million years ago, according to a team led by Yuki Kawabata, an associate professor of Nagasaki University's Graduate ...

Japan's trade minister Ryosei Akazawa said Saturday that he had a brief conversation with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meeting ...

A senior official of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, on Saturday voiced his disappointment as an international nuclear nonproliferation conference ...

Japanese two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers ranked fifth in Forbes' annual list of highest-paid athletes that was released Friday. Ohtani's total earnings stood at 127.6 ...

Japan's education ministry is considering adding new courses to "kosen" technical colleges beyond those in industrial fields, such as agriculture, as well as manga and animation, Jiji Press has ...

Japan's Princess Kako and Prince Hisahito on Saturday visited a special exhibition marking the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Belgium. The second daughter and the only son ...

Princess Aiko, the daughter of Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, attended the opening ceremony of the Laos Festival 2026 at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on Saturday morning. Wearing a pale green ...

Police in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa have sent papers to prosecutors on a U.S. Army soldier in his 20s for allegedly sexually assaulting an adult female acquaintance and causing ...