He elaborated on his long-held ideas about creating a disaster-prevention agency and increasing grants for rural ...

Backing down would undermine the league’s zero-tolerance stance and signal that 'permanently ineligible' isn't always ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies boast that the sanctions make Russia stronger, but they incessantly call for ...

Ishiba will discover that his supply of capital with the public will run out quickly if he offers no break from his ...

Ishiba needs to be ready for challenges coming from all directions: outside the country, from the opposition and from his own ...

In a first for the nation, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government passed an ordinance to protect workers from customer harassment ...

Japan's development aid to Afghanistan strengthens the Taliban. Instead, Tokyo should support those, like exiled Afghans, who ...

Visual communication tools like tsunami flags are critical at swimming beaches, where sound can be obscured by waves and wind ...

Ayami Sato may be the most dominant female pitcher ever to pick up a baseball. Her fastball has been clocked at almost 128 ...

The recent heat continues a run of high temperatures stretching back through the summer, with eastern and western Japan ...

Rikuya Morita and three other men allegedly broke into an elderly couple’s residence in the city of Tokorozawa, Saitama ...

Flights resumed at a regional Japanese airport Thursday after an unexploded World War II U.S. bomb blew up less than a minute ...