Red spider lilies are in full bloom and delighting visitors of Butsuryu-ji temple in the city of Uda, Nara Prefecture. The ...

In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...

Iwao Hakamada, believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate, has been acquitted in a murder retrial in Japan ...

Shigeru Ishiba, who will be Japan's next prime minister after winning his party's leadership vote on Friday, is a seasoned ...

Japan has sent a destroyer through the Taiwan Strait for the first time, Japanese media reported, amid increasing military ...

Hakamada’s older sister, Hideko, has spent years campaigning to overturn her brother’s conviction (Picture: The Asahi Shimbun ...

Shigeru Ishiba, 67, is a senior member of Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and an intellectual heavyweight ...

Snack maker Yaokin, based in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, announced on September 24 that it will raise the price of "Umaibo" from 12 ...

In 2020, the Supreme Court sided with the district court and ordered a new trial. According to The Mainichi Shimbun, one of ...

TOKYO: China fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesdy (Sept 25) in what was its first ...

Years before Monster Hunter World, producer Ryozo Tsujimoto says a PSP game was the series' true turning point.

The nine candidates vying to become prime minister have been differentiated by their stances on a law requiring married ...