Japanese comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto has reached an agreement with Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine to withdraw his lawsuit in ...

A fishing boat capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea’s Jeju island Friday, leaving at least two people dead and 12 ...

The Democratic Party for the People demanded a review of the so-called ¥1.03 million threshold, among other measures to ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denied wrongdoing on Thursday in a burgeoning influence-peddling scandal involving him ...

An expert panel of the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has begun full-fledged discussions on measures to prevent ...

A strange structure is likely to emerge in the Diet in which some opposition parties will support Prime Minister Shigeru ...

A series of articles by a Yomiuri Shimbun team on the problems faced by hospitals that led to organ transplant operations ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to visit the United States and meet U.S. President-elect Donald Trump after visiting ...

Preparations for a special Diet session to be convened Monday are underway in the House of Representatives’ chamber, with ...

The value of media exported by Japan, such as films, anime and manga, rivals that of steel and semiconductor industries, a ...

Yokohama DeNA BayStars manager Daisuke Miura was named winner of this year’s Matsutaro Shoriki Award on Thursday after ...

Yokozuna Terunofuji will sit out a second straight tournament after withdrawing Friday from the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, ...