TOKYO -- Japan will create a new maritime transport unit in its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in March as it looks to boost defense of its chain of southern islands reaching down to Okinawa prefecture, ...

Wild monkeys in this western Japan city gathered on Dec. 25 to form the kanji character for "snake," the Chinese zodiac sign ...

Saito, 47, defeated Kazumi Inamura, former mayor of Amagasaki in Hyogo Prefecture, who criticized ... from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Democratic Party for the People and ...