TOKYO, Japan - Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules.

Japan scrambled fighter jets after Russian bombers flew over international waters around the country, Tokyo's top government spokesman said Friday. "We confirmed that Russian military bombers and ...

Tokyo: Japan scrambled fighter jets after Russian bombers flew over international waters around the country, Tokyo’s top ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a ...

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and ...

Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan announced plans to work toward a merger that would form the world’s third-largest ...

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan will utilize ... Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Friday. "In order to become a disaster management-oriented country that gives top priority ...

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, speaking to reporters in Tokyo on Thursday, urged Israel and Hamas to implement the agreement “sincerely and steadily” and he praised the ...

"Passing down the memories and lessons from the quake is important to prepare for future disasters," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told a press conference in Tokyo while noting that ...