Tag: Kyodo News

Divorces are known to break a heart or two but in one case in Japan, an extra 54 violins were ...

A Japanese governor has retracted his call for North Koreans to be "starved to death" if Pyongyang were to target ...

The US Navy's top commander visited Japan Tuesday to meet with the grieving families of seven sailors killed in a ...

Japan's crown prince Tuesday vowed to devote himself to assuming the role of emperor, days after parliament enacted a law ...

Japan's American-written "peace constitution" has survived unchanged for 70 years, but nationalists seeking an overhaul are gearing up for a ...

Japan has dispatched its biggest warship, in the first such operation since it passed controversial laws expanding the role of ...

Japanese commuters will be encouraged to work from home for one day in a nationwide exercise for the 2020 Olympics ...

A Japanese whaling fleet returned to port on Friday after killing more than 300 mammals in an annual Antarctic hunt, ...

A Japanese court on Friday ruled for the first time that the government bears responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear ...

These Japanese peacekeepers who arrived in November were mandated to use force Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday a plan to pull the nation's engineering troops from South Sudan in May ...

The Japanese and US navies are conducting joint exercises in the East China Sea as tension intensifies in the region ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to visit Japan, China and South Korea later this month to discuss Pyongyang's ...

A government advisory panel released on Monday a mid-term report on the possible abdication of Japan's Emperor Akihito, showing a ...

The US Marines have suspended flights of all Osprey military aircraft in Japan, after a crash off the coast of ...

Tabei died of peritoneal cancer on Thursday at a hospital in Saitama (North of Tokyo, Japan) The first woman to ...