Japan's major opposition party says it wants the consumption tax rate on food items to be scrapped for a year, ahead of a ...

With the number of foreign residents in Japan at a record high, associations are voicing a need to give them better ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did not push his Japanese counterpart for support to prop up the yen during their first ...

Some 35 percent of local government officials in Japan have faced overbearing or abusive behavior from members of the public, ...

Survivors and families of victims of a 2005 West Japan Railway Co. train derailment offered prayers at an event marking the ...

The United States has "absolutely no currency targets" in its trade negotiations with Japan, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ...

All four giant pandas on loan to a western Japan zoo will return to China around late June, ahead of the expiration of their ...

The temperature outside was below freezing in this city northwest of Tokyo as local residents stirred early on a February ...

U.S. Marine Corps troops, who began relocating from Japan's Okinawa to Guam late last year, will begin occupying barracks at ...

Japan's government unveils a package of emergency economic measures to counter the adverse effects of U.S. President Donald ...

A Japanese court orders the Japanese unit of online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. to pay 35 million yen ($244,000) in damages ...

Japan will implement a revised road traffic law from April next year that will see fines imposed for relatively minor traffic ...