TOKYO (AP) — Senior U.S. and Japanese officials tend to shy away from anything but very careful public comments about Japan's 1941 sneak attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. So there was ...

Japan’s first-ever female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is an ultraconservative with a traditional view of gender roles and a penchant for heavy metal music. Japan’s parliament elected Takaichi on ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

The world’s largest nuclear power station is edging back toward full operation in coastal Niigata, a turning point in the long and uneasy comeback of atomic energy in Japan. After more than a decade ...

TOKYO -- Roughly 30% of the 662 educational corporations running private universities, junior colleges and other schools ...