The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison for bank and tax ...

The trade ministry plans to standardize the way information is labeled on processed foods and daily goods to create a data ...

A senior Foreign Ministry official who once interpreted for then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will act as an interpreter for ...

More than ¥300 million was raised by the end of last year through crowdfunding for craftspeople and workshops of Wajima ...

All Nippon Airlines and Japan Airlines announced further flight cancellations for Thursday and Friday, as heavy snowfall ...

Two female priests have been appointed at a shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, for the first time in its history.

Four years after the military coup in Myanmar, high officials of a democratic organization condemned the military junta’s ...

Barely a month after they started, merger talks between automakers Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have hit a brick wall ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed a set of topics to be discussed related to regulating social media during ...

In order to reduce plastic waste, Tokyo-based Fuji Mineral Water has launched a new mineral water product packaged in an ...

A Japan Airlines plane that was taxiing on the tarmac of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport apparently clipped the tail of ...

The Japanese and U.S. governments are set to specifically mention the strengthening of cooperation in the cyber and space ...