President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was ranked third in the world’s most powerful women, Forbes said on Wednesday. In the list that ...

The Yomiuri ShimbunA panel of academics comprising, from left, Eijiro Mizutani, Hidemi Suzuki, Yuya Shibuya and moderator ...

Government estimates warn that up to 199,000 people could die from a major tsunami following an earthquake along the Japan ...

The Federal Reserve will almost certainly reduce its key interest rate Wednesday, but the bigger question for financial ...

The powerful earthquake that struck late on Monday, with its epicenter off the east coast of Aomori Prefecture, occurred in ...

The Legislative Council, an advisory entity for the justice minister, proposed toughening punishments for acts of dangerous ...

Akita Senshu Museum of Art in the city of Akita is running a special exhibition called “Enjoying Art by Gazing” that focuses ...

Hokkaido Governor Naomichi Suzuki on Wednesday announced his approval for the restart of the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido ...

A new mascot character for the Suica transit IC card will be unveiled around Nov. 18 of next year, East Japan Railway Co.

Following the death of a pregnant woman who was struck by a car in May, the Aichi prefectural assembly is expected to pass an ...

This year’s Nobel Prize winners from Japan, Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa, both aged 74, will attend the award ...