Budget carrier Jetstar Japan Co. launched a new route between Narita airport near Tokyo and Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan on ...

Japan is considering adding Japanese language proficiency to the requirements for permanent residency, sources close to the ...

Japan is set to top 40 million foreign visitors in a single year for the first time in 2025, with an estimated 39.06 million ...

A British luxury hotel operator said Thursday it plans to open a large-scale hotel near Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev agreed Thursday to strengthen their ...

The United States said Wednesday it has approved a potential sale of weapons and related equipment worth more than $11 ...

TOKYO -- Half of the child victims in Japan of "sexual deepfakes" -- phony sexual images created using generative AI and ...

Japan's new law regulating the market dominance of smartphone operating system (OS) providers took effect Dec. 18, ...

Former communications minister Toranosuke Katayama died Thursday of natural causes at a Tokyo hospital, Japan's parliament ...

Physician and author Mikito Chinen had been fined 300,000 yen (about $1,900) for damaging the reputation of the leader of a ...

The extraordinary session of the Diet has ended in Japan. Yet once again, no conclusion has been reached on the urgent issue ...

NARA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Prosecutors on Thursday sought life imprisonment for the man standing trial over the "unprecedented" ...