Police in the Philippines have arrested two men on suspicion of killing an 82-year-old Japanese woman in the suburbs of Manila in August.The 20-year-old and ...

Fujifilm Holdings Corp will restart a clinical trial in Japan of its antiviral drug Avigan for the treatment of COVID-19, the Nikkei newspaper reported on ...

It was the ninth intrusion this year and the latest since a new law entered into force in China earlier this month that explicitly allows ...

Behind the surge in the number of cases in which information was compromised is that many companies have been rushing to promote digitalization and remote ...

What constitutes loneliness is a trickier question in Japan, where the overarching term "kodoku" has been used to describe both loneliness and solitude, essentially lumping ...

With a new local rice brand, and farmers returning to the area, the prefecture hopes to quash rumors regarding local produce.

Devices such as a shirt that can gauge a patient's heart rate and a bed that tracks respiratory function are being rolled out.

Of the people newly found positive, 54 are in their 30s, 53 in their 20s and 47 in their 40s.

An increasing number of people in Japan are taking imported COVID-19 drugs that are not authorized for use in the country, prompting concern from public ...

Prime minister sticks to his guns despite criticism that this could make him slow to respond crises.

Japan said it had received reports of hives and chills as possible side effects of the vaccine, but there have been no reports of severe ...

Domestic reporters don't pull any punches in fallout from former Tokyo Olympic chief's cluelessness,

Inspired by the ‘Manyoshu,’ a peasant-poet took the Japanese capital by eloquent storm.

More than half of the nationwide hikikomori population of 1.15 million are between 40 and 64 years old.

The ministry said the Air Self-Defense Force officer, a first lieutenant in his 20s, was aboard a U.S. Air Force T-38 aircraft on a training ...

The Environment Ministry is preparing a checklist for local governments with a view toward making it simpler for people to find out which shelters accept ...

Tokyo reported 327 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, with the daily count staying below 500 for the 14th consecutive day.Those age 65 or over accounted ...

No serious side effects have been reported in the wake of the nation's vaccination rollout that began Wednesday.

The ruling overturns a lower court decision that had dismissed the state's responsibility for the 2011 nuclear crisis.

The top floor of the 330-meter-high skyscraper in Minato Ward will have a view of the capital from the same height as that of Tokyo ...