In June this year, a new type of prison sentence, called "kokinkei" in Japanese, was introduced, and the focus of criminal ...

Japanese sushi restaurant chain Choushimaru Co. recently won a Guinness World Records title for the largest simultaneous tuna ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her British counterpart, Keir Starmer, on Saturday agreed to continue bilateral ...

Front runner Onosato withdrew with an injury from the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament's final day of competition Sunday, handing ...

Ukraine has retained its reputation as a deaf sports powerhouse at this year's Tokyo Deaflympics, even as Russia's ongoing ...

The stately main reading room of a Kobe University library that survived World War II as well as the 1995 Great Hanshin ...

The population of non-Japanese residents in 10 prefectures has more than doubled over the past decade, data compiled by Kyodo ...

United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement Saturday that pledged more funding for countries to adapt ...

Sometimes this was expressed as out-and-out adulation and other times as a bitter denial of any connection whatsoever, and ...

Ukrainian prodigy Aonishiki kept alive his bid for a maiden championship by continuing his head-to-head dominance over ...

China has rejected Japan's proposal to hold a trilateral summit with South Korea in January following Japanese Prime Minister ...