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

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 ...

The Taiwan Strait transits included the first by a Japanese warship since World War II, in a pointed message to China.

One of its ships, the HMNZS Aotearoa, made its first passage through the Taiwan Strait in seven years, alongside the ...

When the Italian writer Dacia Maraini visited Japan this June, her translator Noriko Mochizuki was there with her. Since ...

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

China's military was on "high alert" Thursday and Beijing said it had lodged a complaint with Tokyo after a Japanese warship ...

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

Japan's ruling LDP will choose its new president on Sept 27, to replace Japan PM Fumio Kishida. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 36-year-old over the alleged sexual assault of two school girls inside ...

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 ...