The government has decided not to appeal a high court ruling repudiating the Finance Ministry’s decision not to disclose ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who arrived in the suburb of Washington on Thursday local time, was set to meet with U.S.

There has been a spate of serious incidents in which information of unknown veracity on social media has affected the outcome ...

Online medical treatment, provided by connecting patients and doctors via the internet, should be an effective measure for ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over ...

A driver of a passenger car reported to police that his car was stuck after part of the road had caved in at about 7:50 a.m.

A monument of a plastic model kit of a tuna has been unveiled at Shimizu reito Co., a food processing company in Shimizu Ward ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday Israel would hand over Gaza to the United States after fighting was over and the ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average fell on Friday as a stronger yen dampened appetite. However, investors scooped up stocks with a ...

The Yomiuri ShimbunNobuyuki Suzuki By Takamichi Asakawa / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer [posttime] JST, [postdate] “Salary Man ...

Prosecutors and police searched a premises linked to merchu Inc. — a publicity agency in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture — on Friday on suspicion of receiving compensation from Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito ...

The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison for bank and tax ...