TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Over 80,000 foreign nationals work part-time in Japan's three major convenience store chains, data collected ...

A male employee filed a lawsuit against Osaka-based food manufacturer Otsuka Foods Co. seeking 2.2 million yen ($14,100) in ...

Demotion-threatened ozeki Kirishima fell to his third defeat after four days at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday ...

Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani said Tuesday he is finally sleeping better after being hit by a money scandal tied ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan totaled over 3.04 million in April, up 56.1 percent from a year earlier and exceeding ...

SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Yuki Yanagita and Ukyo Shuto drove in two runs apiece as the SoftBank Hawks rallied to beat the Rakuten ...

Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, appeared in the sky over the business district here on the ...

A 64-year-old woman was arrested on the spot here on May 14 for allegedly fatally stabbing her husband after being asked, ...

According to a government survey, four out of 10 people in Japan feel lonely. We must not dismiss this as just a ...

Volumes of the names of Hiroshima atomic bomb victims -- kept in a stone chamber at the cenotaph for victims at Hiroshima ...

A shogi Meijin tournament match between Meijin Sota Fujii and ninth-dan rank Masayuki Toyoshima will be held in the city of ...

A court rejected Wednesday a lawsuit seeking to block the restart of a nuclear reactor in western Japan due to safety concern ...