The government is considering increasing taxation as early as April 2026 to help cover its planned boost in defense spending, ...

Atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are reenergized to fight for a world without nuclear weapons after Japan's ...

The retrial of a man who served a seven-year sentence for the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in central Japan is ...

Japan's Prince Hisahito, the nephew of Emperor Naruhito and second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne, will attend the ...

U.S. forces say they resumed flights of their Ospreys in Japan after temporarily grounding all their tilt-rotor aircraft ...

Survivors of the 1945 U.S. bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki speak of their experiences and ...

The chief of South Korea's corruption investigation body says his office will seek to detain or arrest President Yoon Suk ...

South Korean writer Han Kang receives the Nobel Prize in literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, days after expressing her ...

Like Satsuki Morita, many university students are closely watching political negotiations that could raise Japan's tax-free ...

Japan has asked China to bolster security to ensure the safety of its nationals in the country on the upcoming 87th ...

Japan and Finland agree to start negotiations on a pact to allow the transfer of defense equipment, citing the increasingly ...

A representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors' group and winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, ...