The benchmark Nikkei Stock Average tumbled more than 7 percent in hectic trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday on a flurry of futures-led selling, suffering the biggest daily percentage loss i...

LONDON (AP)--Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime--shouting political statements, gesturing wi...

“I feel like I’m on top of the world!” Yuichiro Miura, who became the oldest person to ever climb to the peak of Mt. Everest, told his daughter in Tokyo via satellite phone Thursday. “Congra...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education on Thursday released a report disclosing the names of 43 public schools where “malicious” physical punishments of students were reported. A total of 182...

The landscape of this summer’s House of Councillors election is changing. Your Party recently decided to end its cooperation with Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) for the upper house...

A council directly under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has recommended English become a regular subject at primary schools, as part of efforts to rejuvenate the national education system. During Wednesd...

OSAKA (Jiji Press)--Osaka District Court accepted a claim Thursday that losing horse racing bets should be deducted from payouts when calculating taxable income. The claim was put forward by a 39-ye...

Ten babies have been diagnosed since last October with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), which can cause disabilities, according to a survey conducted by the National Institute of Infectious Disease...

GENEVA (Jiji Press)--High school students from the Tohoku region hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami emphasized the importance of disaster prevention at a U.N. conference in Geneva on Wednes...

We would like to ask China to refrain from taking any more actions that would unnecessarily heighten Japan-China military tensions, even if they do not violate international laws. A series of incid...