The Latest Breaking News from Japan

This epic political novel traces the country from Japanese occupation through partition, as experienced by a family of railway workers

In a suburban Brisbane garage, young women decoded radio transmissions that changed the course of World War II. For the first time, their top-secret work on a panicked Japanese cable about a new type of weapon can be revealed.

Ten-year-old Maholo Terajima Ghnassia is breaking conventions as one of the biggest emerging stars in Japan’s Kabuki theater tradition

Japan and like-minded countries must be united and maintain sanctions on Russia until it ends its aggression in Ukraine, Japan's foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said on Friday.

Soccer for Life league in Tokyo has about 40 players, enough for three teams, playing 30-minute matches

As the United States and China vie to establish new partnerships and expand influence with Asia-Pacific nations, the top defense officials from both nations are preparing to try to win support this weekend from their regional counterparts, diplomats and leaders at a security forum in Singapore

Japan's birth rate declined for the seventh consecutive year in 2022 to a record low, the health ministry said on Friday, underscoring the sense of crisis gripping the country as the population shrinks and ages rapidly.

Procurement could court controversy because export rules ban Japanese companies from selling lethal weaponry overseas.

Machines in coastal city of Ako, are located in an area that experts say is vulnerable to a future powerful earthquake