Japanese fisheries minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday that he will work to block the adoption of a proposal making all eel species, including the Japanese eel, subject to regulation under an ...

Blood test to aid cancer treatment and recurrence monitoring now available from a German lab for potentially faster results ...

Japan's ruling and opposition parties on Friday basically agreed to hold a parliamentary vote to appoint a new prime minister on Tuesday, the first day of a planned extraordinary session. Executives o ...

Sanae Takaichi, president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, made a "tamagushi " ritual offering to war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Friday, the first day of its autumn festival. She i ...

Tokyo police have served two people with additional arrest warrants, including a person believed to be the leader of a group accused of committing phone scam cases, people familiar with the ...

The leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), Hirofumi Yoshimura, said Friday that cutting the number of lawmakers is a nonnegotiable condition for a possible coalition with the ruling ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, one of the few Socialists ever to lead Japan and renowned for a landmark 1995 statement expressing remorse and apology for the nation's wartime ...

Tokyo High Court has awarded damages to a South Asian woman and her 8-year-old daughter, who has Japanese nationality, over a police officer's handling of a dispute. Presiding Judge Osamu Hagimoto on ...

The remains of a six-year-old girl who was washed away by the March 2011 tsunami have been returned to her family. The girl, Natsuse Yamane, went missing after the tsunami, unleashed by a ...

Furthermore, the previously disclosed strategic investment agreement between Kopin and THEON received a Direct Foreign ...

Proya Cosmetics, a key player in the Chinese cosmetics industry, is pleased to announce its participation in the 11th edition ...

IHG Hotels & Resorts debuts Dinso Resort & Villas Ko Chang, Vignette Collection By IHG – the island's first true luxury ...