A man in his 50s living in the Aomori Prefecture county of Higashitsugaru is in critical condition after he reportedly consumed monkshood, a ...

The Yokai Senryu Contest, a poetry competition themed on Japanese "yokai" folkloric monsters, has come to an end after 20 ...

"blue ticket" fine system for traffic violations will go into effect for bicycles in April 2026. (Mainichi/Ran Kanno) TOKYO - ...

Japan's Diet is set to pass an 8.56 trillion yen ($54 billion) stopgap budget on Monday to fund spending for the first 11 days of fis ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan would need to take a "decisive" step if speculative trades continue, its top currency diplomat said ...

Around 75 percent of Japan's prefectures have allocated funds in their initial budget proposals for the new fiscal year ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday she will consider holding talks with the Iranian leadership at an ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly plunged more than 5 percent on Monday amid surging crude oil futures due to concerns about an ...

Pakistan announced Sunday that it will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran, though there was no immediate word from ...

The number of foreign national students attending public schools in need of Japanese language training has tripled over the ...

Police on Sunday searched a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force base in the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki in connection ...

The BOJ "needs to raise (the policy rate) by 0.75 percentage point or 1 point," Kuroda said in a recent interview with Kyodo ...