Three people jointly filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government on Nov. 13, claiming that they were unfairly restricted ...

Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...

Tokyo, Nov. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani on Friday said that no decision has been made on U.S.

The Japanese army's fleet of hybrid-helicopter aircraft have been cleared to resume operations after being grounded following ...

Japan equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Warehousing, Shipbuilding and Trading sectors led shares ...

American tourist Steve Hayes was arrested on Wednesday ‘on suspicion of damaging property’ at the Meiji Jingu shrine ...

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September quarter as consumer spending held up ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism. Japan welcomed nearly 27 million ...

Tokyo, Nov. 15 (Jiji Press)--Policy chiefs from Japan's ruling bloc and the opposition Democratic Party for the People on ...

U.S. and Japanese airmen met at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo for the first-ever Battle of the Ranks, a friendly softball ...

The Japanese government is making arrangements to compile a supplementary budget of about 13.5 trillion yen ($87 billion) to ...

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for carving letters into a wooden gate at a shrine in Tokyo.