Haruhiko Kuroda answers questions during a press conference following a two-day policy board meeting at the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on August 7, 2015. As Japan’s 2021 staggers toward a close, no one is ...

TOKYO — Almost overnight, Japan has become an extraordinary, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Daily new cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo down to ...

ENIWA, Japan — Dozens of tanks and soldiers fired explosives and machine guns in drills Monday on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, a main stronghold for a nation that is perhaps the world’s ...

TOKYO >> Growth in the number of Japanese nationals living in Tokyo has slowed as fewer people moved to the capital following the outbreak of COVID-19. As of Jan. 1, Tokyo’s population of Japanese ...

A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the Japanese capital Tokyo after a knife attack on a train left at least 17 people injured Sunday evening, police told CNN, as ...

Tokyo — When three men armed with crowbars ransacked a luxury watch shop in broad daylight in Tokyo's posh Ginza shopping district this week, onlookers stood by and watched the robbery play out in ...

The knife-wielding maniac dressed as the Joker who went on a rampage on a Japanese train Sunday told police he hoped to get the death penalty because he’d “messed up at work,” according to a report.

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Swedish retailer Ikea is becoming a landlord in Japan with a tiny apartment it will rent out in Tokyo. The 10-square-meter (107-square-foot) apartment is located in the Shinjuku district and will cost ...

In 2021, the Tokyo International Film Festival decided to leap out of mediocrity. It was, acquaintances told me, previously ...