While the average monthly salary at Japanese firms rose by more than 10,000 yen (about $64) in 2024 from the previous year ...

An outdoor holiday market in New York City's Bryant Park briefly caught fire Friday morning, sending flames and plumes of ...

A 77-year-old man was arrested Dec. 27 on suspicion of fatally hitting his wife with his car here after becoming angry when ...

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until ...

Travelers flooded airports and major train stations in Japan on Saturday as they departed cities to spend time in their ...

Amid the high number of patients with mycoplasma pneumonia, characterized by persistent coughs, since around this autumn, the ...

TOKYO -- Police forces across Japan have been instructed to strengthen their crackdowns on malicious "host clubs," where male ...

For Japan to survive the age of its graying society and dwindling birth rate, it is essential to take steps to boost the ...

A pro-Pyongyang school for Korean students in this western Japan city has succeeded in raising funds for a new water pump ...

The government of Hokkaido, a northern island popular with tourists, will introduce a lodging tax of up to 500 yen ($3) per night f ...

Real Sociedad attacker Takefusa Kubo was named the 2024 player of the year by the Japan Pro-Footballers Association on Friday ...

Responding to the not guilty ruling in the retrial of former boxer Iwao Hakamada over a 1966 quadruple murder in Shizuoka ...