The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Inoue was defending his undisputed bantamweight titles against British challenger Paul Butler who travelled over to Japan as the huge underdog

Speed skater Miho Takagi, who earned four medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, including the gold in the women's 1,000 meters, was named the winner of the Grand Prix award at the 71st Japan Sports Awards on Monday.

The United States, South Korea and Japan vowed Tuesday to consider all options against North Korea, including counterstrikes, in the wake of an unprecedented blitz of missile tests by Pyongyang that has sent regional tensions spiraling. The flurry of North Korean launches include last month's test of its most advanced…

All you need to know as Naoya Inoue and Paul Butler square off in Tokyo, Japan

Japan is expected to unveil a new national security strategy on Friday along with details of its biggest military build-up since World War Two, in a marked shift away the pacifism that has dominated its political discourse for seven decades.

Boosting military spending may be Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's best hope of reviving his sinking popularity, but there is a catch, analysts say: paying for it with unpopular new taxes could undermine an already wobbly premiership.

Japan's Meiji Holdings Co said on Tuesday its drug subsidiary had started a Phase III trial of an mRNA-based vaccine for COVID-19.

Shionogi Co Ltd said on Tuesday the Japanese government agreed to purchase an additional 1 million doses of its oral treatment for COVID-19.

South Korea, Japan and the United States will coordinate sanctions and close gaps in the international sanctions regime against North Korea, Seoul's envoy for North Korea said on Tuesday.