Japan's government has announced that it will impose sanctions on three groups and four individuals for supporting North Korea's missile an...

Three people have been killed and three others are missing as heavy rainfall has caused widespread flooding.

Japan has raised security concerns after China completed second phase of joint patrols with Russia over the Western Pacific on Wednesday. T...

Kishida told reporters that Shotaro Kishida would step down as his secretary from Thursday, saying the change was due to "inappropriate" be...

The meeting would occur at a time when the United States is increasingly urging allies to work together to counter China's chips and advanc...

Authorities were looking into possible casualties and damage after a strong earthquake hit Friday afternoon near central Japan, but there w...

China has not commented on the no-fly zone but South Korea, which was also briefed on the plans, said it was due to a falling object relate...

The remarks from Hirokazu Matsuno, a top government spokesperson, came shortly before Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, met Japanese p...

He will hold talks with Modi during his visit and both sides will discuss bilateral and regional issues. They will also discuss their prior...

Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands, which Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a territorial row that dates to th...

"We will closely monitor the increasing cooperation between the two countries with a sense of concern," Matsuno, Japan's top government spo...

Asked if Japan approves of the possible use of nuclear weapons by the United States against Russia, Matsuno refused to comment on the groun...

The assessment from the Geneva-based U.N. human rights office largely corroborated earlier reporting by researchers, advocacy groups and th...

Japan has imposed a series of sanctions on Russia in recent weeks, including freezing some individual assets, banning exports of luxury goo...

Japan, which has volatile ties and border disputes with key neighbours China, Russia and South Korea, routinely sends jets to defend its te...

Top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno did not call the decision a boycott but said there were "no plans" to send political representati...

Japan took some of the strictest steps globally on Monday by closing its borders to non-Japanese for about a month in light of the emergenc...