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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man thought to be the longest-serving death row inmate in the world has been acquitted by a Japanese court at the age of 88 ...

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

The Asahi Shimbun examined temperatures at 15 stations that are less affected by urbanization and are used by the JMA as a benchmark for average temperatures in Japan. They include cities such as ...

TOKYO: A Japanese warship cruised through the Taiwan Strait for the first time to assert its freedom of navigation, local ...