Mizuhara Ippei, the former interpreter for Major League Baseball player Ohtani Shohei, has been sentenced to 4 years and 9 ...

NHK World's Kikuyama Kengo spoke with Mike Mochizuki, an expert in US-Japan relations at George Washington University. He thinks Japan has an opportunity to chart its own course in the new Trump era.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, the operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, says it will begin ...

A man charged with attempted murder of former Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has said in his trial that he threw a ...

A court in Japan has ruled that the disparity of up to 2.06 times in the value of one vote in the Lower House election last ...

Lineup: 1.US aid freeze impacts Myanmar refugees in Thailand 2.Leaders of Thailand and China agree to tackle scam centers ...

The two will decide whether to end merger talks "very soon." An expert says an alliance would likely not work anyway because ...

The short film Instruments of a Beating Heart documents daily life at a typical Japanese elementary school. It has won praise ...

Japan's National Police Agency says the number of penal code offenses in the country last year topped 730,000 cases and ...

Japan's government has given up appealing a high court ruling that rejected the Finance Ministry's decision not to disclose ...

One of Japan's biggest power companies plans to start a new type of geothermal system in Germany this summer. The closed-loop ...

A group of Japanese winemakers from Yamanashi Prefecture near Tokyo are aiming to raise the profile of their drinks in London ...