Tokyo stocks surged on October 5, with the Nikkei 225 closing at 69,947, up 1,637 points, after briefly recovering the 70,000 ...

Japanese markets open the week of October 5 with investors focused on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s policy speech, the Bank ...

Japan brought the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games to a close on October 4 with a record 83 gold medals and 269 medals overall, ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has strongly condemned the arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbery and murder at a ...

The Hida Taste Festival, a long-running event that began in 1986, is held twice a year in spring and autumn and has become a ...

TOKYO - Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko attended the Asian Games individual show ...

OSAKA - Graduates of Japan's colleges of technology, commonly known as Kosen, are attracting growing attention from employers, with the ratio of job openings to applicants exceeding 35 as companies ...

A Tokyo court has recognized the commercial rights of performers over their voices for the first time, ruling that ...

Around 38,000 dolls, including traditional Japanese dolls and stuffed animals, were brought to Meiji Shrine in Tokyo ...

Eleven men were injured when a traditional danjiri festival float overturned while attempting to make a sharp left turn at an intersection in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on the evening of October 3, with ...

Police are investigating a possible case of arson after a fire broke out in the parking lot of a closed restaurant in Daito, Osaka Prefecture, early on October 3, damaging approximately 460 square ...

Typhoon No. 26 made its closest approach to the Kanto region on October 1 before heading north without making landfall, while ...