In newspaper and TV reports on criminal investigations in Japan, it is not uncommon to come across the phrase, ...

Teachers of Japanese in Britain are shaking up the way they teach the language in order to challenge Western stereotypes and ...

By Shihab Alfaheem, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Arab Emirates to Japan, Commissioner General ...

Several Mie Prefecture mayors in central Japan have pledged to continue employing foreign nationals in their municipalities ...

China-bound exports of Japanese sake and food items have been delayed amid an escalating diplomatic row between Beijing and ...

Japan's household spending in November rose a real 2.9 percent from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.

The Bank of Japan on Thursday maintained its economic assessments for all nine regions of the country, as capital spending ...

Uichiro Niwa, the first Japanese ambassador to China appointed from the private sector, died of old age late last year, the ...

A wildfire broke out Thursday in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, prompting local authorities to advise nearby residents ...

Rina Gonoi, who was sexually assaulted while serving in Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, is expected to reach a civil ...

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A police officer in Saitama Prefecture has been arrested on suspicion of the theft of anime trading cards kept at a police ...