Japan's new banknotes -- the first updates since 2004 -- entered circulation on July 3, featuring the world's first ...

Japan's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay damages to plaintiffs who were forced to undergo ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) began issuing three types of new banknotes on the morning of July 3, and they are expected to be ...

A court rejected Wednesday a request by a Japanese language school to revoke a government decision to decertify the facility ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday that he is scheduled to visit the United States and ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- New 10,000 yen ($62), 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen banknotes featuring cutting-edge anti-counterfeit technology ...

Sexual assault cases by U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa Prefecture have occurred again in the southern island prefecture ...

The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition announced on July 2 that it had received 16,828 applications for 600-plus ...

This city's board of education issued a notice to a junior high school that students should stay properly hydrated, after the ...

Tetsuya Yamagami is seen being transferred from Nara Prefectural Police's Nara Nishi Police Station on Feb. 14, 2023.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Donald Trump has repeatedly said he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he's ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A survey of people in 13 of the nations belonging to NATO found a median of about 6 in 10 held a favorable ...