He elaborated on his long-held ideas about creating a disaster-prevention agency and increasing grants for rural ...

Backing down would undermine the league’s zero-tolerance stance and signal that 'permanently ineligible' isn't always ...

Ishiba needs to be ready for challenges coming from all directions: outside the country, from the opposition and from his own ...

Ishiba will discover that his supply of capital with the public will run out quickly if he offers no break from his ...

Japan's development aid to Afghanistan strengthens the Taliban. Instead, Tokyo should support those, like exiled Afghans, who ...

In a first for the nation, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government passed an ordinance to protect workers from customer harassment ...

Visual communication tools like tsunami flags are critical at swimming beaches, where sound can be obscured by waves and wind ...

Ayami Sato may be the most dominant female pitcher ever to pick up a baseball. Her fastball has been clocked at almost 128 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies boast that the sanctions make Russia stronger, but they incessantly call for ...

The latest data — for the week of Sept. 16 to 22 — showed cases averaging roughly six times the number from the same week ...

Flights resumed at a regional Japanese airport Thursday after an unexploded World War II U.S. bomb blew up less than a minute ...

Rikuya Morita and three other men allegedly broke into an elderly couple’s residence in the city of Tokorozawa, Saitama ...