The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, state media reported Wednesday, the day after he took office in Tokyo.

Phoenix Campbell will turn professional regardless of the opportunities on offer to the winner of this week's Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Japan.

A Greenland court will decide Wednesday whether to keep anti-whaling activist Paul Watson in custody pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, where he is wanted over a clash with whalers.

The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts

Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period and later.

This mouthwatering show celebrates Japan’s fine art of creating delectable duplicates – the work of craftspeople since the 1920s, all intended to tempt customers into restaurants

PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition preorders in Japan have been restricted in an attempt to battle scalpers.

Iyashikei is a Japanese genre that, according to Japanese studies scholar Paul Roquet, tells stories that are designed to comfort and heal weary readers by creating an aesthetic of calm. In order to achieve this, as Roquet articulates, these stories are presented as tales with little or no plot conflict.

Google Japan announced a new keyboard design that addresses the “big problem” of keyboards only having keys on one side.

Japan's newly elected Prime Minister took office on Tuesday and formed a cabinet made up of numerous security and defence experts in line with his calls to strengthen regional military alliances. The majority of cabinet members are relative unknowns, marking a break from a string of corruption scandals that have…

That's one way to handle them