Japan’s Seven & i Holdings is betting it can boost value by hiving off underperforming businesses and focusing on mainstay ...

Top executives of Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest crime syndicate in Japan, submitted a pledge to Hyogo prefectural police to end ...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) said an employee leaked estimated costs and work details to a Tokyo-based ...

Bears are expanding their habitat into depopulated areas around Japan, posing a threat to the residents who still live in ...

Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was ...

Nineteen people were taken to hospitals after a pungent odor spread at the Ginza Six commercial complex in downtown Tokyo ...

Tao Okamoto became the first Japanese to win Best Actress at the Cannes International Film Festival on May 23 for her ...

The Immigration Services Agency will begin conducting cyber patrols on social media to detect and prevent illegal employment ...

Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of Seven-Eleven Japan and widely regarded as ‌the father of Japan's convenience ⁠store industry ...

Komusubi Wakatakakage took another major step on the comeback trail from a severe knee injury suffered three years ago, ...

Hundreds and even thousands of Chinese fishing vessels have repeatedly formed lengthy “walls” in the East China Sea that are ...

A canned mackerel product developed by high schoolers in Fukui Prefecture for consumption in outer space has returned to the ...