(Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP) People queue up to get a ticket for a seat to observe a court’s ruling on an attempted murder trial for Ryuji Kimura, who threw a homemade pipe bomb at former ...

The 30-year-old man is suspected of defrauding a client of about ¥10 million ($65,000) by selling fake savings products, according to local media Kyodo. Tokyo police suspect the person used the ...

Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, widely acclaimed in the Mandarin-speaking world, has died of influenza-induced pneumonia while on a family holiday in Tokyo, local media reported Monday. She was 48. Hsu, ...

The chief of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Monday that the Japanese automaker will make a final decision on whether to join a planned merger between Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. in mid-February ...

Kyodo News announced it has dismissed two deputy editors of its Foreign News Department for misappropriating approximately 60 million yen ($417,000) for their personal use while they served as ...

The Cabinet approved the appointment of Meiji Kakizaki, 59, deputy managing editorial writer at Kyodo News, a leading Japanese news agency, on Sept. 29. Kakizaki will leave Kyodo on Sept.