For the first time in 62 years, a region other than Okinawa Prefecture or the Amami islands in far southern Japan is in the ...

MUKO, Kyoto Prefecture--The leafy pathway through a bamboo forest in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto is popular with tourists.

A bruising proxy fight is taking shape for control of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. when its next shareholders’ meeting is held on ...

Struggling Nissan Motor Co. may close two of its five domestic auto plants, including its famed Oppama factory in Yokosuka, ...

The decision to incinerate was reached on Aug. 7, 1945, the day after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, according to “Gaiko wo ...

Japanese defense officials say they recovered the remains of one of two crew members who were missing since their military ...

NAHA—The sight of white crabs with long, slender legs and tiny, dot-like eyes drew a yelp of astonishment from Yoshihisa ...

BEIJING--Chinese worker Liu Shengzun lost two jobs in just one month as U.S. import tariffs shot up to triple digits in April ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 training aircraft after one of ...

Mio Ikeda stumbled across a future hit product when she discovered “firm tofu” at U.S. supermarkets in 2018 soon after she ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

The inaugural Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremonies will be held on May 21 and 22, with hopes it will gain the prestige of the ...