After the worst of Typhoon Hagibis passed over the city of Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, on Saturday night, Kazuo Saito made sure there was no water outside his house and went to bed. He woke up a few times throughout the night to check, but by ...

As the squabble between Japan and South Korea over trade escalates, Seoul has threatened to end a military intelligence sharing agreement dealing with North Korea.

A journalist close to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has defended her view that Korean women who were sent to Japanese wartime military brothels were not sex slaves, and accused a liberal-leaning newspaper of fabrication. One of the newspaper's reporters said a day earlier that the ...

Tepco says much of the radioactive water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant isn’t clean enough and needs further treatment before it is released into the ocean.

Japan's ultramodern conveniences, its bullet trains, automated ticketing systems and smart homes work just fine — until the power goes out. The blackout across the entire northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful earthquake struck early Thursday showed the weak link in all that technology. The ...

A survey of women working for Japanese newspapers and TV networks has found 156 cases of alleged sexual misconduct reported by 35 women, about one-third of which involved lawmakers, government officials and law enforcers, according to a researcher at Osaka International University. Professor Mayumi Taniguchi, ...

Tokyo used its famous 1964 Olympics to show off a miraculous recovery from defeat in World War II. Japan was back after just 19 years with high-speed trains, geeky gadgets and dazzling efficiency. Tokyo's back again with the 2020 Summer Olympics, this time with something ...

The mother of a U.S. Navy sailor who survived a direct hit to his sleeping berth during a collision at sea said her son kept diving to try to save his shipmates until the flooded berth began running out of air pockets, while others ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will visit Pearl Harbor with U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday, wasn't even born when then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida went there just six years after Japan's surrender, by himself and feeling awkward. Yoshida is best remembered for signing the San ...

Seventy-five years after a Japanese admiral led the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the mayor of his hometown joined his Honolulu counterpart to mark the anniversary — as friends. Nagaoka Mayor Tatsunobu Isoda lay flowers at the main memorial event Wednesday ...