"blue ticket" fine system for traffic violations will go into effect for bicycles in April 2026. (Mainichi/Ran Kanno) TOKYO - ...

Around 75 percent of Japan's prefectures have allocated funds in their initial budget proposals for the new fiscal year ...

Pakistan announced Sunday that it will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran, though there was no immediate word from ...

Police on Sunday searched a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force base in the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki in connection ...

The Yokai Senryu Contest, a poetry competition themed on Japanese "yokai" folkloric monsters, has come to an end after 20 ...

The BOJ "needs to raise (the policy rate) by 0.75 percentage point or 1 point," Kuroda said in a recent interview with Kyodo ...

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war in the Middle East on Saturday, claiming two missile launch ...

Laila Brahmbhatt (New York, USA) Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay ...

East Japan Railway Co. has launched the country's first freight service using shinkansen bullet trains, aiming to swiftly ...

The Israeli Embassy in Tokyo has refused to accept a statement from four atomic bomb survivors' groups in Japan that ...

Yuma Kagiyama took silver and Shun Sato bronze as U.S. star Ilia Malinin bounced back from his Olympic disappointment by ...

Chicago White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami hit his second home run in as many Major League Baseball games Saturday with ...