The head of a local geisha supporters' group in this northeastern Japan city has sparked controversy by saying, ...

What stood out for Japan was the low level of satisfaction with quality of life. Only 13% of Japanese pollees answered that ...

The Niigata City Board of Education is starting to serve school lunch to every student at all municipal junior high schools ...

Japan will send its second medical team to Myanmar on Saturday to meet increasing health care needs in the Southeast Asian ...

The spate of high court rulings in Japan that homosexual individuals being disallowed from having their partnerships legally ...

A spotted seal was born at Marinepia Nihonkai, an aquarium in the city of Niigata, on April 4. The baby seal is a female and ...

The head of Japan's junior coalition partner said Friday he does not rule out anything to support the economy, hit by rising ...

Lightning struck a school field in Nara on the evening of April 10, sending six students to hospital, including one in ...

Tokyo stocks ended Friday morning down over 4 percent after the Nikkei briefly shed nearly 2,000 points, as shares were sold ...

Sunset over Lake Shinji is seen through the branches of blooming cherry trees at Shirakata Park in the western Japan city of ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday instructed his close aide Ryosei Akazawa to conduct upcoming tariff negotiations with ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold one-on-one debates with opposition leaders from 3 p.m. on April 23 at the parliament, ...