Tokyo is set to implement a four-day workweek for its government employees starting in April 2025, allowing them to take Fridays off.

A Japanese man with a snake tattoo covering most of his face and neck was arrested for assault, to the shock of his neighbors.

An American tourist was arrested after he allegedly used his fingernails to carve five letters into a gate at the Meiji Jingu Shrine.

Asia took up the baton in early trade but some markets fell away in the afternoon. Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, Wellington, Taipei and Jakarta rose.

Tokyo, which suffered a record loss Monday, led the gains, soaring more than 10 percent as traders bought beaten-down stocks caught up in a catastrophic day for markets.

US chip titan Intel became the latest bearer of bad news, warning it would slash more than 15 percent of its workforce -- about 18,000 jobs -- as it streamlines operations.

In its annual white paper, the ministry outlined its stance on a range of issues, from tensions around Taiwan to the intensifying rivalry between China and the United States.

Tokyo's rebranded auto show returns this weekend just as China looks set to overtake Japan as the world's biggest car exporter after Toyota, Nissan and others got stuck in the electric vehicle slow lane.

A man allegedly raped his girlfriend after giving her a cup of tea mixed with sleeping pills.

A woman has been indicted for murder after she allegedly killed her 9-year-old son by pushing him to his death from the 23rd floor of a hotel located in Tokyo, Japan in December 2021.

An elderly man has been accused of brutally killing his roommate by beating her to death with a golf club while she was asleep in Saitama, Tokyo, Japan on Sunday, July 10. 

A man has been arrested for throwing away his brother's skull and jawbone in the trash after wrongly assuming they were replicas in Kita Ward, Tokyo, Japan. 

A woman has been accused of abandoning her newborn baby inside a suitcase and hiding the bag inside a closet in Hino City, Tokyo, Japan.

A man who was arrested on suspicion of murdering a 64-year-old homeless woman in 2020 allegedly killed himself while he was out on bail in Tokyo, Japan on Friday, April 8.

A man who was caught stealing a car navigation system from an apartment complex parking lot allegedly blamed Vladimir Putin after getting arrested in the Aoba Ward of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday, March 30.

A Japanese woman who tried to leave her country using her dead mother's passport was arrested on suspicion of corpse abandonment in Tochigi Prefecture, Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, March 24.

An Uber Eats delivery man has been indicted over the death of a 78-year-old man last year in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan.

A Japanese woman sued the sperm donor of her second child on Wednesday after she found out that he lied about his background to her, forcing her to put the child up for adoption.

A Japanese mother allegedly killed her 9-year-old son by pushing him from the 23rd floor of a Tokyo hotel in a suspected murder-suicide attempt.

A Japanese man allegedly killed himself by jumping in front of a train after strangling his mother and leaving her for dead.

A woman reportedly killed her husband by smashing a plastic bottle filled with water against his head.

A Japanese nurse who reportedly killed three of her patients by putting antiseptic in their IV drips at a hospital in 2016 has been sentenced to life in prison.

A man dressed as the Joker for Halloween was arrested after going on a stabbing spree on a Tokyo train before starting a fire, leaving at least 17 commuters injured on Sunday. 

A Thai woman living in Tokyo, Japan has been arrested after being accused of flushed her infant son down the toilet after giving birth in her condominium building.

Two commuters suffered serious chemical burns after a suspect reportedly attacked them with acid in a Tokyo subway station.

About 1.6 million doses of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine were removed from Japan's vaccine stockpile following reports of contamination in some vials, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare confirmed on Thursday.

Police in Tokyo have arrested a man in debt accused of stealing a bag containing ¥1.2 million in cash (US$10,944.90) from a 20-year-old woman in an elevator in May.

A self-confessed misogynist has been arrested by police on Saturday after injuring at least 10 female passengers in a stabbing spree on a running commuter train in Tokyo on Friday.

A Nigerian man has reportedly been arrested by the Kanagawa Prefectural Police for allegedly trying to smuggle about 15,000 tablets of MDMA, or Ecstasy into Japan from Germany.

A Japanese patient suffering from COVID-19 complications was reportedly turned away by 100 hospitals amid a spike in coronavirus cases in Tokyo.