Japan is entering its end-of-year party season with most COVID-19 restrictions lifted, but concerns over the new variant are likely to keep the festive mood restrained.

Japanese and foreign nationals coming from the three countries, as well as four U.S. states, were to be subject to stricter quarantine requirements from Sunday.

The caseload in the capital on Saturday was up by three from a week before and was the 23rd straight day below 30.

Top Communist Party officials slammed the planned democracy summit next week, saying the American political system doesn’t represent a real democracy.

With plenty of its own money and a greater desire to control the private sector, Beijing is pushing its companies to tap investors closer to home.

The Resolute Dragon 21 exercise involves about 1,400 GSDF troops and some 2,650 U.S. Marines.

U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday he would make it "very, very difficult" for Russia to launch any invasion of Ukraine, which warned that a large-scale attack may be planned for next month. Washington and Kiev say Moscow has massed troops near Ukraine's borders and ...

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said he expressed "regret" to his U.S. counterpart over the resumption of F-16 fighter jet flights without notification, after an accident earlier in the week.

The system, developed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, was made ready for use on Friday. Previous tests were unable to distinguish the new variant from other strains.

A postponement of Kishida's meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden would mean an increasingly busy diplomatic calendar for top Japanese and U.S. officials in the new year.

While the practice is hardly unique to Japan, its prevalence in the world's No. 3 economy is a notable legacy of years of deflation.

Apple Inc. iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group.

The creation of the new post comes as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida looks to keep in step with major democratic nations that are locked in an intensifying standoff with China.

Two years into the pandemic, the emergence of yet another COVID-19 variant means the world will need to find long-term strategies to coexist with delta, omicron and the strains to come.

The health ministry has presented an outline for new rules that it says would make the procedure as speedy as those in Europe and the United States.

The city is faced with asking attendees to immediately get tested for COVID-19 after a person contracted one of the first confirmed infections of the omicron variant in the U.S.

The Treasury Department said that Japan and China remain on the list, but refrained from labeling any major U.S. trading partner as a manipulator.

Revisions to corporate tax reductions intended to encourage pay hikes are the biggest focus of the forthcoming tax system reform.

U.S. President Joe Biden has stressed as a hallmark of his foreign policy the importance of working closely with allies in pushing back against assertive Chinese behavior.

This could mean the virus transmits more easily, while only causing mild or asymptomatic disease.

The service, code-named Spartacus, will allow PlayStation owners to pay a monthly fee for access to a catalog of modern and classic games.

Japan’s lawmakers each receive ¥1 million per month to help pay for things such as postage and transportation, regardless of how many days the recipient works.

“Modern global history” is to be made a compulsory subject in senior high schools in Japan from 2022.

The omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the World Health Organization has said.

Without the usual waves of tourists supporting their endeavors, the "ama" divers of the Ise Peninsula expand the scope of their operations.

Cook for where you wish you could be. That's the sentiment behind this week's tropics-inspired dessert for the holiday season.

Receiving refugee status after protesting against his country's military coup, Pyae Lyan Aung is now welcomed onto a globally diverse team.

Peng is not the first celebrity in China to be almost entirely erased by censors. The country’s online propaganda machine can make just about any story — or person — vanish.

After a dip from 2018 to 2020, Root has risen to the challenge this year.