Up-and-coming No. 1 maegashira Yoshinofuji handed yokozuna Hoshoryu his first defeat Tuesday at the New Year Grand Sumo ...

A survey has revealed a tendency in Japan among working-age people to value the freedom of being alone, even if it comes with ...

The former mayor of the eastern Japanese city of Maebashi was reelected on Monday after she resigned over repeated visits to ...

It has emerged that four local assembly members of Nippon Ishin (also known as the Japan Innovation Party, or JIP) evaded ...

President Donald Trump's repeated threats to seize control of Greenland are straining relations with U.S. allies in NATO and ...

Mobile phones in Iran were able to call abroad Tuesday after a crackdown on nationwide protests in which the inter ...

Police across Japan received more than 10 million calls to the 110 emergency number between January and November 2025, the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the House of Representatives for a snap election at the outset of ...

Documents related to welfare were removed without authorization and disposed of as trash by an employee in charge of public ...

The number of influenza cases in Japan fell below the alert threshold for a second straight week, with health ministry data ...

Yaxzodara Lozada woke up Monday freezing after sleeping on the sidewalk outside a prison in Venezuela's capital, hoping her ...

The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan surpassed 10,000 in 2025 for the second consecutive year amid a labor shortage ...