If you’ve taken a rush-hour train in any major Japanese city, you’ll likely had the experience of 身体的接触 ( shintaiteki ...

Mongolian-born Hoshoryu became the 74th yokozuna in sumo history this week after winning the second tournament of his career.

Honda and Nissan will unveil an outline of their business integration around mid-February, informed sources said Friday.

Fuji TV held a marathon 10-hour news conference on Monday to address allegations of sexual misconduct by Masahiro Nakai, a ...

Ueda said the BOJ’s policy settings are still accommodative after recent rate hikes and that would remain the case as the central bank continues to support the inflation trend.

The DeepSeek shock exposes an uncomfortable truth: American tech exceptionalism and the xenophobia that underpins it mean the ...

Prime Minister Ishiba’s reluctance to engage with Trump while strengthening ties with China raises concerns about Japan’s ...

There hasn’t been as much outrage as I had anticipated, but it makes sense. Most Americans, polls show, don’t personally know ...

Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great to Catherine the Great and Stalin.

The speed with which the U.S. president reached for this tariff tool — against an ally no less — is proof that his threats are not empty words.

A move to summon a former LDP faction accountant risks upsetting the party's parliamentary timetable and exposing it to criticism.

A sinkhole in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, caused by a ruptured underground drainage pipe underscores the growing ...