The captain of a chemical tanker, which was sailing off Kobe, reported to the Kobe Coast Guard Office at around 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday that it had collided with a fishing vessel.

Actor Fuju Kamio and Yurina Hirate, a former member of the idol girls band Keyakizaka46, have been married, the two announced ...

Two Centrist Reform Alliance lawmakers announced on Wednesday their intention to run in the party’s election to choose a new leader.

The annual Sounkyo Onsen Ice Fall Festival has started in Kamikawa, Hokkaido, with ice sculptures illuminated in rainbow ...

The Osaka prefectural and municipal governments plan to build a tentatively called “EXPO 2025 Memorial Hall” at the site of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo on the artificial island of Yumeshima in Konohana ...

Korean Air announced Tuesday that it will increase direct flights between Niigata and Seoul from three flights per week to ...

Japan took bronze in the ski jumping mixed team event at the Milano Cortina Winter Games on Tuesday local time.

For Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to maintain stable governance, it is crucial to sustain the confidence of financial markets. Given that Takaichi advocates “responsible and proactive public finances, ...

Even if the aim is to advance a long-cherished policy of the Japan Innovation Party, how would that be accomplished through holding gubernatorial or mayoral elections? Winning such meaningless ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured 193,708 votes in her Nara Constituency No. 2 in Sunday’s House of Representatives election, the highest number earned by any candidate in the single-seat ...

A measles patient stayed in Sapporo and may have come into contact with an unspecified number of people, the Hokkaido and ...

The result of Sunday’s House of Representatives election will boost political subsides to be granted to the Liberal ...