A 108-year-old Japanese woman has been named the world’s oldest female barber by the Guinness World Records this week.

Shitsui Hakoishi, 108, poses with a Guinness World Records certificate recognising her as the world’s oldest female barber, ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top court has rejected an appeal seeking criminal charges against three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings over their alleged failure to prevent the 2011 ...

Jewher Ilham, the daughter of jailed Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti, has vowed to make people all over the world aware of the ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a ...

Chinese state news agency Xinhua said it would deepen cooperation with Japan's Kyodo News as Beijing aimed to create a "favourable public opinion environment" for Sino-Japanese ties. Xinhua's ...

TOKYO, Kyodo News Plus - Over 60 percent of train travelers in Japan have been left annoyed by the behavior of foreign ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Over 80 percent of people in Japan support the death penalty, saying the existence of the system is ...

The Japanese parent company of convenience store chain 7-Eleven is reportedly preparing for its current president, Ryuichi ...

According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a state's sovereignty ends after the 12 nautical miles of its territorial sea. The U.S. and its allies have deployed their navies to ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's party and a coalition partner are considering cutting the draft budget for the fiscal year from April by some 340 billion yen ($2.27 billion) to just under 115 ...

The fire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture has forced residents to evacuate since breaking out Wednesday and spreading over a wide ...