The Upper House passed into law on June 11 a measure to convert the Science Council of Japan into a special corporation and ...

SEOUL--South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean ...

Help is at hand for customers who have hearing problems or difficulty speaking Japanese at Yamato Transport Co.’s parcel ...

CHIBA—A prefectural commission plans to restrict crabbing for “gazami” crabs along the coast of Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, ...

From the lakeside city of Otsu to Kyoto, I walked a roughly 12-kilometer stretch of the Biwako Sosui—a historic manmade ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to ...

China slumped out of World Cup contention before Uzbekistan and Jordan qualified for the first time. In the meantime, South ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo's Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...

OpenAI is seeing an increasing number of Chinese groups using its artificial intelligence technology for covert operations, ...

SAKAI, Osaka Prefecture--City authorities gave the go-ahead for trial balloon rides at ancient burial grounds here from early ...

WASHINGTON--Japan and the United States failed to find common ground in their fifth round of talks on Washington’s high ...