She had been hospitalised since March after suffering a stroke and pneumonia and had been recuperating there following ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police allege the man used his fingernails to carve five letters into the pillar of a torii gate at the popular tourist attraction.

U.S. Forces Japan command is weighing a move from Yokota Air Base, in western Tokyo, to somewhere in central Tokyo, as part ...

Major Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu on Nov. 14 began selling rice produced in Taiwan, which is about 20% cheaper than the ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...

Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks slipped as the market’s rally following Trump’s election victory continued ...

Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...

Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of Japan's imperial family, died at 101. Born in 1923, she married Prince Mikasa and lived through the war, supporting historic research and family duties. Her ...

The Nikkei 225 index remained under pressure on Friday morning after Japan published the latest GDP data and Jerome Powell ...

The Italian Parliament has agreed to support the country's efforts with the UK-led Global Combat Air Program (GCAP). Japan is ...

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September quarter as consumer spending held up.

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.