Eight of the 125 successful candidates in the July House of Councillors election believe Japan should arm itself with nuclear ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday reaffirmed that next year's defense budget is set to exceed 3 percent of gross ...

A municipal assembly in Saitama Prefecture passed a resolution by majority vote urging an independent councilor to refrain ...

The annual National High School Baseball Championship is kicking off Aug. 5 at the famed Koshien stadium in Hyogo Prefecture ...

Drought brought by a heatwave and light rainfall this summer have adversely affected rice plants, orchard trees, vegetables ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) has revised its schedule for decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ...

Japan on Tuesday logged a new national record temperature of 41.8 C in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, exceeding the previous high ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly f ...

A small island in Hakata Bay in southwest Japan has opened a convenience store, becoming the first of 10 inhabited islands in ...

Yusei Kikuchi held the Tampa Bay Rays to a run over six innings to earn the win as the Los Angeles Angels came from beh ...

Close to 60% of cases of abuse targeting elderly people that were confirmed by local governments across Japan in fiscal 2023 ...

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural ...