The Topix Index fell 4% to 2,544.41 as of 9:12 a.m. Tokyo time, while the blue-chip Nikkei declined 4.1% to 34,281.76.

National security professionals were largely split on how seriously to take 33-year-old Christopher Stanley's past.

As mediators try to cobble together another ceasefire and hostage-release deal, Israel has been carrying out attacks with a ...

Expanding defense-industrial cooperation will top the agenda when NATO foreign ministers meet their counterparts from Japan, ...

There’s something peculiar going on with the three young women at the heart of Nobuhiro Doi’s “Unreachable.” ...

Born in 1933, the actor was a favorite of Japanese cinema’s golden age auteurs Mikio Naruse (“Scattered Clouds,” 1967) and ...

NHK's new four-episode miniseries, “After the Quake,” probes the ripple effects of past major disasters across Japanese ...

The shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake on Friday flattened buildings across Myanmar, killing nearly 3,000 people and making ...

The higher 'reciprocal” rates are based on a government tally of the levies and nontariff barriers those countries impose on ...

The gaming giant's newest console will retail for ¥49,980 for its Japanese-only version and ¥69,980 for multilingual and ...

Sumo, as a result of Terunofuji’s recent retirement, now also has its own elite group of 12.

The economic and political pillars that emerged after the turmoil of 1998 are in peril. Markets are rightly apprehensive.