Adam Withnall reports from Tokyo on Sunday’s test of moderate, centrist politics in Japan, where worries about inflation, ...

Japan will hold a snap general election on Sunday that represents a crucial test for new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and ...

Knee-jerk criticism of Ishiba misses is that politicians in Japan, like any democracy, make campaign promises that change ...

TOKYO (AP) — For many Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their relatives, Friday’s awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Japanese organization ...

Around that same period, another warning came from Japan—a towering monster who topples Tokyo with blasts of irradiated breath. The 1954 film Godzilla launched a franchise that has been warning ...

TOKYO (AP) — New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved the lower house of parliament Wednesday to set up an Oct. 27 snap election, asking people to trust the governing party's ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that ...

Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he ...

The Memphis Grizzlies of the American professional basketball league NBA announced on October 19 that they have signed a ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief has apologized to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering because of a wrongful conviction that had kept him on death row decades until last month when ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors have played an immeasurable role in activism against nuclear weapons worldwide, ...