Foreign residents and wheelchairs — much less Paralympic athletes — were a rare sight in Japan in 1964.Preparations to host the Summer Olympics and the ...

In a stunning move that could further upend already fraying ties between Japan and South Korea, Seoul announced on Thursday  that it would scrap a ...

Japan has set lofty goals for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, but by aiming for packed venues and a top-seven finish on the medal table, organizers ...

Yokohama threw its hat into the ring on Thursday as a candidate to host a casino resort, a newly legalized segment of the tourism sector ...

Recent signs that Japan and South Korea are making subtle overtures to each other have raised hopes that they are moving toward de-escalating their diplomatic ...

The government is considering providing tax breaks for donations to Kyoto Animation Co., hit by a deadly arson attack last month, to encourage companies and ...

The Defense Ministry has decided to make a budget request for a new space monitoring unit to be set up in fiscal 2020 within its ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Japan next week to attend a government-organized development conference and meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other officials, his ...

A panel of an international convention on endangered species decided Wednesday not to adopt a resolution calling for an early shutdown of domestic ivory markets, ...

A man affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime syndicate, was shot Wednesday in Kobe, apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the ...

South Korea’s National Security Council will meet later Thursday to discuss whether to extend an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid an intensifying spat between the ...

The proportion of people affected by passive smoking at workplaces in Japan fell below 30 percent for the first time last year, the labor ministry ...

Japan is considering launching development in fiscal 2020 of fighter jets to succeed the Air Self-Defense Force’s F-2s, which are expected to be retired in ...

A bullet train running at a speed of 280 kilometers per hour had a door open during part of its journey from Sendai to Tokyo ...

In a move that could heighten pressure on Japan, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday that his country will join the U.S.-led mission to ...

At least four Japanese nationals have received illegal kidney transplant surgeries in Pakistan this year, sources close to the transplant patients said, amid growing global ...

A government task force focused on earthquake research intends to redesign its hazard maps to make it easier for those with color vision deficiencies to ...

At around 10 p.m. on a Thursday in early August, foot traffic at a dining and drinking district only one stop from Tokyo’s Ikebukuro Station ...

The city of Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, has initiated a scholarship program to help high school graduates enter the world’s top universities in honor of Hirobumi ...

The percentage of successful visa applications by nationals of countries such as Myanmar and Bangladesh to study at Japanese-language schools from April was sharply down ...