Japanese teenager Rena Kawasaki won this year’s International Children’s Peace Prize on Nov. 14 for her work to get more ...

Beverage giant Kirin Holdings Co. will acquire Australian natural health products maker Blackmores Ltd. for 1.88 billion ...

Beloved hitmaker Studio Ghibli Inc. will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. while maintaining its ...

The Japanese government adopted plans on Friday to scrap its current foreign trainee program, which has been criticized as a ...

Mobile carrier KDDI Corp. will acquire a 50-percent stake in Lawson Inc. for nearly 500 billion yen ($3.37 billion) to help ...

Increasing arrests for theft and other crimes among Vietnamese technical intern trainees who come to Japan for a better life ...

No action has been taken to strengthen around 10,000 bridges across the country that were identified as needing repairs or ...

Japan went from watching to fully participating in a large-scale joint military exercise hosted annually by the United States ...

NANTAN, Kyoto Prefecture—Police here rearrested a man on suspicion of murder after he admitted to strangling his adopted son ...

Infinity Castle” film trilogy concluded its official theatrical run in Japan on April 9, leaving behind numerous box office ...

The Nikkei 225 index closed at a record high 62,833.84, on May 7 after optimism for an end to the Iran war led to ...

Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a ...