Visitors to Japan have been key customers for department stores, but now they are tightening the purse strings. Foreign ...

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In the wake of Iran’s implied threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, attention has turned to the circumstances that would be necessary for deploying the Self-Defense Forces — specifically, an ...

The Aichi prefectural police on Tuesday arrested two schoolteachers in Nagoya and Yokohama on suspicion that they took ...

The all-male pop group TOKIO said Wednesday it was disbanding, announcing the decision on the website of its management ...

The sea off the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture was hit with 336 earthquakes measuring at least a 1 on the Japanese ...

The Ground Self-Defense Force test-fired a surface-to-ship missile at its range in Hokkaido on Tuesday, the first drill of ...

Harvesting of Junsai, or water shield, is at its peak in Mitane, Akita Prefecture, one of the leading production centers in ...

Ten years after the villages of Otama and Machu Picchu in Peru became sister cities, a ceremony will be held in October to ...

A Nepali father and son have been arrested for allegedly impersonating Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani to swindle cash ...

Can Nippon Steel Corp., once the world’s largest steelmaker, regain the top spot? The Japanese steelmaker will be tested as to whether it will be able to work out an investment strategy in U.S. steel ...

Israel and Iran, which have been exchanging attacks, have agreed to a ceasefire, U.S. President Donald Trump has announced.