A subcommittee of the Central Minimum Wages Council, an advisory body to the health, labor and welfare minister, decided Monday on a guideline for raising the minimum hourly wage in the current fiscal ...

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

Japan has clinched the sale of 11 Mogami-class stealth frigates, beating out warships from Germany, Spain, and South Korea in ...

Tourist arrivals from Hong Kong to Japan fell by 33.4 per cent year-on-year in June. The rumour was widely circulated in Hong ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Russia caused tsunami waves, but there are no reports of serious casualties, contrary to the misleading video’s claim ...

One of the greatest players in Seattle Mariners history will have an entire weekend dedicated to him in the next week. During the Mariners series against the Ta ...

The Beatles’ legend was detained upon entering Japan at the outset of a week-long tour, and he only had himself to blame ...

Australia said Tuesday it accepted a Japanese company's bid for a lucrative and hotly contested contract to build Australian ...

President Lee Jae Myung offered his condolences to Korean atomic bomb victims, a day before Japan's Hiroshima marks the 80th ...

Former Oregon State track and field athlete Kaylee Mitchell earned a bronze medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the USA Track and Field Outdoor National Ch ...

Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another ...

Japan clinched a landmark A$10 billion ($6.5 billion) deal on Tuesday to build Australia's next-generation warships, marking ...