Japanese golfer Akie Iwai captured her first LPGA tour title on Sunday at the Standard Portland Classic in the U.S. state of Oregon, finishing at 24 under par.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Sunday expressed his eagerness to reinforce his country's cooperation with Japan in order to stabilize the international order.

Two Japanese nationals were shot to death in the Manila metropolitan area in the Philippines on Friday night, it was learned Sunday.

Japan's Cabinet Office will create a registration system for local government employees with extensive experience assessing and recognizing disaster damage to houses and issuing damage certificates.

After its devastation in World War II, Tokyo saw a rapid population inflow in the 1960s on the back of Japan's strong economic recovery, and some 14 million people now live in the Japanese capital.

Hajime Sakata, who was 8 years old just after the end of World War II 80 years ago, traveled more than 500 kilometers south across the Korean Peninsula for his return to Japan.

Kunitake Toriya was preparing to embark on a kamikaze suicide attack mission against Allied forces during the Battle of Okinawa when the fighting ended in June 1945, just weeks before Japan's surrender in World War II.

Japanese film director Sho Miyake's "Tabi to Hibi" ()削除 has won the top prize in the international competition division at the 78th Locarno Film Festival on Saturday.

A Japanese woman orphaned by a massive U.S. air raid on Tokyo 80 years ago, in the late stage of World War II, had her life turned upside down.

With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, concerns are rising in Okinawa Prefecture over the dwindling number of lawmakers in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party who put weight on measures to support the development of the southernmost Japan prefecture.

A woman who survived the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city of Hiroshima 80 years ago called for the abolition of nuclear weapons in a lecture in Sydney on Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump has released a message regarding the 80th anniversary of the country's victory over Japan in World War II, stating that "the Japanese Empire was defeated" and the world was "spared from the oppressive clutches of destruction and tyranny."

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-Lung's latest trip to Japan has affected Japan-China ties, with Beijing canceling at the last minute a bilateral meeting of agriculture ministers.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Japan to attend the upcoming Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD 9, the United Nations said Friday.

Japanese mobile payment service provider PayPay Corp. has taken a step for its public listing in the United States.

A male climber who went missing after being attacked by a bear in Mount Rausu in Hokkaido, northern Japan, was found dead Friday afternoon.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, announcing on Friday the country's position regarding the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, urged Japan to make the right choice.

Publicly traded companies in Japan logged an 11.7pctdecrease in combined net profit for April-June from a year before as tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump weighed heavily on automakers.

Japan's ruling and opposition parties expressed concerns about U.S. tariffs at Friday's meetings of senior members of the budget committees of both Diet chambers, in the presence of economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa, the country's chief negotiator in tariff talks with the United States.

Hajime Eda, 82, a representative of bereaved relatives of World War II victims, delivered a speech at this year's war-end anniversary ceremony on Friday, voicing his hope to keep Japan out of war.