The only way to remove an LDP president from office — aside from him stepping down himself — is to invoke the recall clause ...

In a dusty box, a Nagano man finds proof his father served in Nanjing, China, with Unit 1644, part of Japan’s covert ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will visit Japan between Aug. 23 and Aug. 24 and hold a summit with Prime Minister ...

A survey conducted by the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry has found that 1 in 55 middle school students — or 1.8% — abused over-the-counter drugs in the past year.

After hitting 42,999.71 intraday on Tuesday, the Nikkei 225 stock index breached the 43,000 level for the first time ever on ...

American Fred Kerley, a two-time 100m Olympic medalist, has been provisionally suspended for failing to notify anti-doping ...

The coast guard is continuing the search for several others who were supposed to be on the yacht, though a spokesperson said ...

The shoal has been a major source of tension in the South China Sea, a conduit for more than $3 trillion of annual ship-borne ...

When a situation arises in which there aren’t enough rikishi at the sport’s second-highest rank to occupy both the east and ...

The Ospreys will be operated to defend remote islands, such as the Nansei island chain in southwestern Japan, with a Taiwan ...

For 95-year-old Hideo Shimizu, the 4½ months he spent with the biological and chemical warfare unit of the now-defunct ...

An investment manager at the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund is adding Japan’s financial shares to her portfolio.