Shizuo Aishima was one of three company executives illegally held in pretrial detention for months on charges that were later ...

With US foreign policy in flux, Japan and South Korea are finding common ground on trade, defense, and demographic challenges ...

Japan is paying tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending World War II.

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether ...

The release of WWII-era military documents this year has given a boost to researchers digging into Japan's germ warfare ...

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about opening up the Japanese market to cars from American automakers, which is ...

Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the nation's population has been in decline for 15 years.

Suspected human bones have been recovered at a wartime mine in Japan where about 180 mostly Korean forced laborers died in an ...

Minoru Handa, the third-generation chief of suburban tea store Tokyo Handa-en, which sells green and brown tea as well as ...

RISHIRI, Japan (Reuters) -As Japan faces its hottest summer in history, a sharp decline in the catch of sea urchin in the ...