Japan is accelerating a military buildup program designed to double annual arms spending. The country also is revising a ...

Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, ...

More than a dozen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan in which a liquid believed to be ...

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Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off northern Japan that officials said had caused an increased risk of anothe ...

The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up ...

On Friday, Japan marked 20 years since members of a shadowy cult let off deadly sarin nerve gas in Tokyo's subway system. The attack was the worst in modern Japanese history, and prompted global ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is considering visiting Washington to meet President Donald Trump before a mid-month summit of the Group of Seven nations as he seeks a trade ...

For Beijing, scallops have served as a diplomatic pressure point. For Japan’s allies, consuming them is portrayed as an act ...

The winter solstice is the shortest daylight of the year. There is a tradition of taking baths with yuzu citrus fruit to wish ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - It was a rare role reversal for Japan's influential Asahi newspaper, which is known for exposing wrongdoing in high places, when its president stood before cameras to bow, apologise ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the ...