The Nikkei 225 index surged in Monday morning trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as strong economic data out of the US ...

Japan's new industry minister has urged the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear-power plant to tackle the facility's ...

The archbishop of Tokyo will be promoted to cardinal, becoming the seventh Japanese to be appointed to the second highest ...

The Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival kicked off on Saturday evening in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The event in the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will use a leader-level meeting in Germany to present his "Victory Plan" ...

A large number of Jewish residents rallied in Paris on the eve of the first anniversary of Hamas' large-scale attack on ...

Delegates from across North Korea are expected to discuss defining South Korea as the "No.1 hostile country" in the North's ...

North Korea has reported that its leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping sent telegrams to each other to ...

A repatriated Japanese woman abducted by North Korea has collected signatures calling for the early return of other victims.

Workers have moved furniture and other items to storage from a temporary housing complex for quake survivors in central Japan ...

In Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres are facing off in the division series. This is the ...

Japan and Italy have agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding that will give Tokyo priority to buy liquefied natural gas from an Italian firm during natural disasters and other emergencies.