The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to subsidize up to 100,000 yen (about $640) for the cost of painless delivery, ...

Police arrested a former chancellor of Tokyo Women's Medical University on Monday over alleged breach of trust in relation to ...

Yushima Tenmangu shrine in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward enshrines Sugawara no Michizane, known as the "god of studies." Before the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday urged U.S. President Joe Biden to address concerns in business circles triggered by ...

J-League first-division club Kashiwa Reysol announced the transfer Sunday of defender Hiroki Sekine to Reims in France's ...

For foreign women who moved to Japan to work as technical intern trainees, taking maternity leave has rarely been a realistic ...

Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on ...

A former U.S. Green Beret who served a prison term for helping former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan said ...

Firefighters scrambled Sunday to make further progress against wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed 16 ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed to accelerate efforts to revive regional economies and address the overconcentration of ...

The rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in northern China is declining, a health official said ...

Croatia's opposition-backed President Zoran Milanovic, a critic of the European Union and NATO, overwhelmingly won reelection ...