Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...

Japan’s tax revenues hit a record of around ¥75.2 trillion ($524 billion) in the fiscal year ended March, surpassing ...

Japan’s largest shipbuilder, Imabari, has doubled its stake in Japan Marine United (JMU). Privately owned Imabari ...

Tosoh to construct new chloroprene rubber plant in Japan; Sika and Sulzer to establish plastics recycling JV; BASF starts up ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his apartment near Tokyo.

Japan's Justice Ministry says a man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo ...

Japan and the United States are arranging for U.S. Secretary of State Rubio to visit Japan for the first time in early July, ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun 7:00 JST, June 23, 2025 The government has decided to postpone the notification of terminating the Japan-South Korea continental shelf agreement, which governs joint continental ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday that it was important to build up the necessary defence budget for Japan, while stressing that a numerical target for the ...

Therefore, Japan remains wary of the new administration. However, in an opinion poll conducted by South Korean’s Korea JoongAng Ilbo this month regarding the country’s diplomatic relations with Japan, ...

Mt. Shinmoe on the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu erupted Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The 1,421-meter volcano straddling Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures erupted around ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan and South Korea are marking the 60th anniversary of the normalization of their diplomatic relations Sunday. The two Asian powers, rivals and neighbors, have often had little ...