Maekawa was accused of murdering the 15-year-old girl at her home in Fukui Prefecture in March 1986. The Fukui District Court ...

TOKYO -- The surge in support for right-wing Sanseito ahead of upper house elections on Sunday has caught mainstream Japanese political parties and media off guard with its unabashedly 'Japanese first ...

TOKYO -- The surge in support for right-wing Sanseito ahead of upper house elections on Sunday has caught mainstream Japanese political parties and media off guard with its unabashedly 'Japanese first ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. government designated The Resistance Front, considered an offshoot of the Pakistani extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a "foreign terrorist organization" over the ...

COLOMBO/TOKYO -- Plastic pellet spills, a phenomenon little understood but disproportionately harmful to ecosystems and human health, are becoming an alarmingly frequent consequence of modern maritime ...

TOKYO -- Japan and the European Union will launch a new "economic two-plus-two" dialogue to bring together their foreign and ...

TOKYO -- Japanese pharmaceutical companies are ramping up investment to build a domestic supply chain for antibiotics, fueled ...

TOKYO -- Russia's and China's recent friendliness with the Taliban interim government in Afghanistan, intended to reap ...

The site near Princeton, New Jersey, is about an hour south of New York on the Interstate 95 highway, the main artery of the ...

While naval patrols and island-building dominate headlines about the South China Sea, China is waging another, quieter campaign -- one that unfolds not at sea, but in seminar rooms, policy briefings ...

TOKYO -- Rapidus, Japan's $34 billion project to restore the country's advanced chip-making capabilities, announced its first major update regarding test production of 2-nanometer chips on Friday, ...

NEW DELHI -- Pioneering Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace is on track for India's first private orbital rocket launch later this year, co-founder and CEO Pawan Chandana told Nikkei Asia, as the ...