The Bank of Japan decided to keep its benchmark short-term interest rate at around 0.5% at a monetary policy meeting on ...

A body was removed on Friday from the driver’s seat of a truck that had fallen into a sinkhole in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, ...

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years ...

At any convenience store, there are now footprint marks on the floor that lead up to the cash registers. People wait on these ...

A bipartisan resolution was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday requesting the government take ...

Almost 12 years after applying for a safety screening, the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co. Inc.’s Tomari nuclear ...

The Bank of Japan on Thursday decided to keep its monetary policy unchanged while cutting its inflation and economic growth ...

Fuji Television Network, Inc. vowed to take measures to change its corporate culture, which was severely criticized by the ...

Fuji Media Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that it expects to swing into a net loss in the year that ended in March due to the ...

Government stockpiled rice auctioned in March is taking time to become available to consumers. As of April 13, only around ...

South Korea’s worst ever wildfires in March were made twice as likely as a result of climate change and such disasters could ...

Having survived the harsh winter, about 3,000 oyamazakura cherry trees are now in full bloom and coloring the mountainside ...