Seven people have died since April this year - the highest number since figures started being recorded in 2006, officials say ...

Authorities in Japan said three people were killed by bears in the span of one week, including one elderly man who was ...

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims ...

TOKYO: Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday (Oct 17) aged 101, officials said.Murayama issued the 1995 ...

Bears have killed a record number of people in Japan this year, the environment ministry said on Thursday just as another ...

Japan's lower house scheduling committee board has agreed to hold a parliamentary vote to select the next prime minister on October 21, a senior ...

The Japanese Diet is scheduled to vote on the nation's next prime minister on Tuesday, which has political parties angling to ...

Less than a year ago, Yuichiro Tamaki was fighting to retain the leadership of his own opposition party amid reports of an ...

Sanae Takaichi, the newly-elected head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, held talks about a possible coalition with ...

Two People’s Liberation Army Navy surface action groups sailed between Japan’s Okinawa and Miyako Islands in and out of the ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday ...