Throughout history, Japan and Turkey have both suffered massive earthquakes. Groups from the two nations recently met to ...

A Japanese government official says the government has confirmed that a Japanese national was detained by Iranian authorities ...

A group of researchers in Japan has unveiled to the media a humanoid robot that can offer advice based on Buddhist teachings.

Private-sector weather firms in Japan have released their latest forecasts for when the buds on cherry trees in the country will start to open this spring. They say the Somei Yoshino variety will come ...

Department store sales in Japan rebounded in January, as robust domestic demand for luxury goods made up for a fall in ...

NHK has learned that the Japan Fair Trade Commission has raided the Tokyo office of IT giant Microsoft on suspicion of ...

Japan's transport ministry says it plans to ban the use of portable chargers inside airplane cabins on flights in and out of the country's airports from mid-April.

Japan's health ministry says preliminary figures show that the country recorded a little over 700,000 births last year, a new record low.

A commission of Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party has accepted a draft proposal to abolish a restriction that ...

Prosecutors in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, have charged a former police forensic expert with falsifying the results of DNA tests.

China says it will ban the export of items that have both civilian and military applications to 20 additional Japanese ...

A baby monkey raised by humans at a Japanese zoo has become a popular attraction, clinging to a stuffed toy orangutan that he ...