A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma Inc. who was detained in Beijing and charged with spying has been sentenced to 3 1/2 ...

Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is this August releasing a home-use toilet which measures the amount, hardness and other ...

A Japanese court on Thursday ordered a local government to pay a former assistant nurse about 31 million yen ($209,000) in ...

Tokyo stocks ended higher Thursday, as heavyweight chip shares trimmed earlier losses after robust earnings from Taiwan ...

A couple who allegedly left their three young children unattended at their home here for more than six hours were arrested ...

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The Blue Impulse aerobatics team from Japan's Air Self-Defense Force flew over the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, on July 12 and 13 ...

Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. said Thursday it has withdrawn its $47 billion buyout proposal for Japanese ...

What is one major change to Japan's system for switching a foreign driver's license to a Japanese one starting in October ...

Struggling yokozuna Hoshoryu withdrew from the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday after beginning the 15-day meet with ...

Japan's trade surplus in June shrank 30.8 percent from a year earlier to 153.1 billion yen ($1 billion) as automobile and ...

The Tohoku Regional Forest Office in the city of Akita has announced that beech trees in five Tohoku prefectures of ...