A 16-year-old high school student and two men were arrested Monday for allegedly robbing a man of a bag containing about ¥72 million ($650,900) in cash in Tokyo's posh Ginza shopping district in April, police said. Okito Ogasawara, 20, Yuta Kurata, 23, and the teen ...

Japan Airlines Co. said Monday that group net profit rose 32.9 percent in the April-June quarter to ¥19.56 billion ($176.95 million) on strong demand for both international and domestic flights. The nation's second-biggest carrier also said group operating profit rose 12.0 percent to ¥24.75 billion ...

Prosecutors arrest the former chief of scandal-mired Moritomo Gakuen and his wife for allegedly defrauding the central government of subsidies for their ultranationalist school business.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump agree to take unspecified “further actions” against North Korea following its second ICBM test.

At her resignation ceremony, Tomomi Inada calls for an “open” Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces but does not apologize for the cover-up scandal that brought her down.

School officials in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, looking into the 2015 death of a 15-year-old schoolgirl concealed the fact that she committed suicide while surveying her classmates and parents, it has been learned. The family of Naoko Nakashima, who was a third-year student at a junior ...

Masayoshi Son plans to use the SoftBank Group in a direct bid for Charter Communications after a proposal to merge it with his Sprint unit was rejected.

A 10-year-old boy in Hyogo Prefecture lost consciousness after being bitten by a venomous snake Saturday, police said. The boy, a resident of Itami, was with a friend on a path to a temple in neighboring Takarazuka when he was bitten on the wrist by ...

The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in crisis, stung by scandals that have bitten into his public approval ratings in recent weeks. At a glance, these scandals look like separate events with little connecting them. But experts say they have one grave problem ...

The U.S. has conducted a successful test of its Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, intercepting a medium-range target ballistic missile for its 15th success in 15 tries, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said. Experts said Sunday’s test was almost certainly aimed at reassuring nervous ...

Deadly protests rocked Venezuela on Sunday as voters broadly boycotted an election for a constitutional superbody that unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro vowed would begin a "new era of combat" in the crisis-stricken nation. Opposition parties are sitting out what they call a rigged election ...

Kim Jong Un's drive to make North Korea a nuclear power won't be halted without tougher steps taken by the international community.

Japan can send China a wake-up call on North Korea by hosting a series of THAAD missile defense system.

The Japanese workplace has never been known for congeniality, but these days, female employees say "Working conditions are more comfortable than in the old days."

July 25 marked a traditional eel-eating "Doyo no Ushi no Hi," or the Day of the Ox.

Popular manga "One Piece" will become a live-action TV drama through a collaboration with a Hollywood production team.

For young Japanese who have known only peace, an animated portrait of an ordinary woman's wartime life has brought the devastation of war and nuclear weapons close to home. Based on a manga by Hiroshima native Fumiyo Kono, "Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni" ("In This ...

Seiji Uebayashi's third-inning, three-run homer brought the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks from behind in a 5-3 win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Monday evening. Before a crowd of 46,808, the largest announced at Tokyo Dome this season, the Hawks overturned a 3-0 deficit in ...

Atsunori Inaba hadn't even been officially unveiled as the next Samurai Japan manager for 10 minutes when NPB commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki told him he carried the hopes and dreams of the public into the upcoming Tokyo Olympics in 2020 and World Baseball Classic in ...

The Japanese women's national basketball team made a triumphal return home on Monday, fresh from winning the Asia Cup for the third straight time. The Akatsuki Five, who edged Australia 74-73 in Saturday's thrilling championship game, flew back to Narita airport on Monday morning with ...

Yuka Momiki made it two goals in two games but Samantha Kerr scored a first-half hat trick Sunday as Australia maintained its perfect record with a 4-2 victory over Japan in the Tournament of Nations. On the second game day of the four-team women's international ...