An American student who disappeared while on a family vacation in Japan was found dead outside Kyoto, ‌his mother wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday.

Japan’s expanding military capabilities are prompting calls from Chinese military experts for faster upgrades

Japanese businesses are ramping up borrowing to cover cash shortfalls fueled by record merger activity, booming capital investments and mounting investor pressure for shareholder returns, putting their credit ratings at risk.

The Dutch, quarter-finalists in 2022 and ranked seventh in the world by FIFA, will be favourites to progress. Their biggest challenge is likely to come from Japan, who became the first side to secure their place at the tournament in March last year after breezing through their qualifying group.

Tsunami warnings were issued after an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

UTSUNOMIYA -- The municipal government here announced on June 7 that multiple bear sightings were reported in urban areas of this eastern Japan city, ･･･

By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, June 8 (Reuters) - Japan's economy lost momentum in the January-March quarter from the previous three months over sluggish capital expenditure, revised gross domestic product (GDP) data showed on Monday,

Conservatives force the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum to drop the word massacre, a move critics say downplays Japan’s wartime aggression.