Over 70 countries are set to call for targets to reduce plastic production and consumption worldwide to combat marine pollution in a joint statement to be issued at the U.N. Ocean Conference this week ...

Japan's top tariff negotiator is arranging a visit to the United States later this week for a sixth round of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba spoke by phone with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday, a Japanese ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says that Japan should aim to boost its economy to 1,000 trillion yen ($7 trillion) in nominal terms by 2040, instructing his ruling party executives to include it in a ...

Former yokozuna Hakuho plans to remain involved with sumo despite severing ties with the sport's ruling body, the winner of a ...

Japan's Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, visited a nursing home near Sao Paulo on Saturday to interact with locals ...

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning has been spotted in the vicinity of Japan's easternmost island in the Pacific, the Japanese Defense Ministry said Sunday, noting that it is the first time that a ...

Soon after a powerful earthquake devastated Japan's Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day 2024, councilor Tsuyoshi Yamahana heard ...

Japan's Tokito Oda won his third consecutive French Open wheelchair tennis singles title Saturday, defeating Britain's Alfie ...

Japan and the United States have yet to find common ground on tariff issues but still aim to strike a deal of some sort in ...

A private funeral was held Sunday in Tokyo for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, with former Yomiuri Giants ...

Japan and the European Union are preparing to launch an "alliance" framework to beef up their companies' competitiveness by ...