A powerful earthquake that has a high probability of occurring beneath Tokyo and nearby areas within the next few decades ...

Japan's new law regulating the market dominance of smartphone operating system (OS) providers took effect Dec. 18, ...

Budget carrier Jetstar Japan Co. launched a new route between Narita airport near Tokyo and Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan on ...

The yield on Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond rose to 2.000 percent on Friday for the first time since May 2006, ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese actor Hiroya Shimizu, known for his role in the "Tokyo Revengers" movie series, was sentenced ...

A British luxury hotel operator said Thursday it plans to open a large-scale hotel near Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, ...

The Bank of Japan on Friday raised its key policy interest rate to a 30-year high at around 0.75 percent, up from around 0.50 ...

The yen weakened to the lower 156 level against the U.S. dollar on Friday after the Bank of Japan decided to raise its ...

Japan is considering adding Japanese language proficiency to the requirements for permanent residency, sources close to the ...

TOKYO -- Half of the child victims in Japan of "sexual deepfakes" -- phony sexual images created using generative AI and ...

Japan is set to top 40 million foreign visitors in a single year for the first time in 2025, with an estimated 39.06 million ...

Former communications minister Toranosuke Katayama died Thursday of natural causes at a Tokyo hospital, Japan's parliament ...