A Japanese prime minister has not visited an active combat zone since WWII.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his government will take steps to restore Japan’s preferential trade status

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have agreed to strengthen economic and defense ties

Japan and South Korea agreed to resume regular visits between their leaders and take steps to resolve a trade dispute during a long-awaited summit

The U.S., Canada, India, Japan and South Korea are staging joint anti-submarine warfare drills amid talks between Japanese and South Korean leaders aimed at strengthening their alliance with Washington against threats from China and North Korea

Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his memories during Japan’s postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son, has died

Tokyo’s high court has ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades

China has condemned a plan by Japan to release treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, demanding that Tokyo first receive the approval of neighboring countries

A group of residents of Japan who say they suffered decades of human rights abuses in North Korea after being lured there by false promises of a “Paradise on Earth” are asking a Japanese appeals court to rule that North Korea should pay them compensation

A Japanese startup is planning to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise astronomically expensive experience down to Earth

Xiang Xiang, “super papa” Eimei and daughters were sent to a protected facility.

Leiji Matsumoto, the anime creator known for ”Space Battleship Yamato” and other classics, has died at age 85

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced a new $5.5 billion financial aid for Ukraine and will mark the first anniversary of the war by hosting an online Group of Seven summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

A trial looking into bribery at the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has begun

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has met with LGBTQ representatives and offered an apology over his former aide’s discriminatory remarks, which sparked nationwide outrage and calls for the government to ensure equal rights

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel says he has “full confidence” that the Japanese government will take the necessary steps to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he had successful sinus surgery at a Tokyo hospital

Japanese LGBTQ people and rights groups have condemned a recent discriminatory remark by a senior aide of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, demanding his government enact laws to ban discrimination against sexual minorities, legalize same-sex marriage and ...

A senior aide to Japan’s prime minister is being dismissed after making discriminatory remarks about LGBTQ people

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has sharply criticized China for “bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan” and stressed the need for Japan and other democracies to work together with the alliance to defend the international order

Kyle Smaine, a U.S. professional skier, died Sunday in an avalanche in Japan, his family said.

A former Japanese soldier who reported being sexually abused by military colleagues says she has filed a damage suit against five perpetrators and the government because she feels their earlier apologies were empty

Japanese rescuers have found two foreign men who were hit by an avalanche while backcountry skiing

China says it's resuming issuing visas for Japanese travelers beginning Sunday, ending its nearly three-week suspension in an apparent protest of Tokyo’s tougher COVID-19 entry requirements for Lunar New Year tourists from China

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan faces the severest security environment in the region since the end of World War II

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19 to the equivalent of seasonal influenza in the spring, a move that would further relax mask wearing and other preventive measures as the country seeks t...

A Japanese court has found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation

Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear plant to “around spring or summer,” indicating a delay from the initial target, after factoring in the progress of a release tunnel ...

Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear plant to “around spring or summer,” indicating a delay from the initial target, after factoring in the progress of a release tunnel ...

The top national security officials from the U.S. and Japan have unveiled plans to strengthen the alliance to help counter threats from North Korea and China

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have waved to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers at the Imperial Palace in a celebration halted for the past two years by the pandemic

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed his fourth minister in two months to patch a scandal-tainted Cabinet that has raised questions over his judgment of staff credentials

Large swaths of Japan are seeing heavy snow since last week, killing 17 and leaving hundreds of homes without power

Japan has adopted a plan to extend the lifespan of nuclear reactors, replace the old and even build new ones

Japan has adopted a plan to extend the lifespan of nuclear reactors, replace the old and even build new ones

Heavy snow in northwestern Japan has left three people dead.

Japan's strict self-defense-only postwar principle is being loosened

A Japanese court has rejected a damages suit filed by a group of children of Nagasaki atomic bombing survivors seeking eligibility for government support for medical costs, saying hereditary radiation impact has not been proven

Japan’s parliament has enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party caused public outrage

Japan has announced it will jointly develop its next-generation fighter jet with the U.K. and Italy

Japan’s top government spokesperson said Monday that the number of babies born this year is below last year's record low

Japanese fans, players clean up after themselves after the matches.

A strong earthquake was felt in Japan, occurring off the coast from Fukushima.

Japan is lifting a more than 2 1/2-year ban on international cruise ships that was imposed following a deadly coronavirus outbreak on the cruise ship Diamond Princess at the beginning of the pandemic

Japan and the United States have begun a major joint military exercise in southern Japan as the allies aim to step up readiness in the face of China’s increasing assertiveness and North Korea’s intensifying missile launches

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his country urgently needs to strengthen its military capabilities amid a worsening security environment in the East and South China seas and threats from North Korea and Russia's war on Ukraine

Japan’s industry minister says that a Japanese consortium has decided to retain its stake in the new Russian operator of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project

As the United States and Japan further strengthen their military alliance, they’ve turned to farmers markets to foster friendlier ties between American military bases and their Japanese neighbors

Japan's Cabinet has approved a hefty economic package including about 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) in government spending to alleviate the burden of costs from rising utility rates and food prices

Japan’s economy minister resigned over his ties to the Unification Church in a widening controversy involving dozens of governing party lawmakers