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

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 ...

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

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

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

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

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

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...

Waymo LLC, which operates fully autonomous, driverless taxis in the United States, has announced that it would start ...

In early summer 1877, the 10th year of the Meiji Era (1868–1912), a passenger ship from San Francisco arrived at Yokohama ...