Having set the lofty goal of a top-four finish at the 2027 Rugby World Cup, Japan head coach Eddie Jones also wants to build ...

Yoshiko Ishiba, Japan's new first lady, is known for her gentle demeanor and enjoys even greater popularity than her husband ...

Shigeru Ishiba became Japan's prime minister, following his fifth attempt to head the ruling party, but he faces challenges ...

The business confidence index for major Japanese manufacturers in September remained unchanged from three months earlier at ...

Japan's busiest bullet train service connecting its three largest metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka on Tuesday ...

Japan expressed "serious concern" Tuesday over Israel's ground incursion against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, ...

Japan's parliament on Tuesday is set to elect new ruling party leader Shigeru Ishiba as the next prime minister, at a time of ...

A Japanese hospital says it has performed a living kidney transplant between a same-sex couple, a procedure typically limited ...

Hiroshi Moriyama, new secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is a skilled negotiator who gained extensive ...

Japanese consumers face price hikes in October on around 2,900 food and drink items, the most for a month so far this year, ...

Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani won the National League home run and RBI titles as Monday's doubleheader between ...

The Nikkei stock index sank over 4 percent early Monday, hit by selling of exporter and other issues after the yen ...