Taizo Mikazuki won a fourth term as governor of the western Japan prefecture of Shiga in an election Sunday, defeating three rivals. Mikazuki, 55, was supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party' ...

Japan's Hayabusa2 unmanned probe successfully flew past the asteroid Torifune at close range on Sunday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said. The probe is in normal condition, JAXA said.

Japan's Foreign Ministry is considering the possibility of easing its evacuation advisory for Iran and three other Middle Eastern countries in response to a deal between the United States and Iran to ...

Japanese police served fresh arrest warrants on three people on Sunday, including a 44-year-old man believed to be an executive of one of Asia's largest international fraud organizations, for allegedl ...

Ryoma Hudzeleu, a Japanese national from Mitaka, Tokyo, has won the gold medal in the senior men's solo category at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow, held at the Bolshoi Theater in the ...

A memorial ceremony was held in Kumamoto Prefecture on Sunday to mark the sixth anniversary of the heavy rain disaster that left 67 people dead and two others unaccounted for in the southwestern Japan ...

IT STARTS A 60-DAY COUNTDOWN COMMEMORATING THE UPCOMING RE-ISSUE OF B'DAY, HER GROUND-BREAKING SECOND ALBUM RELEASED ON HER ...

BASEL, Switzerland and SEOUL, South Korea, July 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sky Labs (CEO Jack Byunghwan Lee) announced on the ...

The number of fire or smoke incidents apparently caused by lithium-ion batteries during garbage disposal and collection in Japan hit a record high of 36,760 in fiscal 2025, according to provisional ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's decision on whether to attend intensive Budget Committee discussions at the Diet, the country's parliament, appears to hold the key to breaking the deadlock in ...

Japan's health ministry has ordered Kissei Pharmaceutical Co. to report on 20 deaths among users of Tavneos, a vasculitis drug marketed by the company in Japan, health minister Kenichiro Ueno said ...

Japanese industry minister Ryosei Akazawa inspected U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc.'s semiconductor plant in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Saturday. Akazawa attended a groundbreaking c ...