The Tokyo Bay Grand Fireworks Festival, a summer treat last held in 2015, is returning next year as part of a special ...

When Masaya Kobayashi moved to Tokyo after graduating from a college in Kanazawa, he thought about renting an apartment at ...

Rice shortages are pushing food banks to the brink of closure and threatening to hurt the most needy in society.

OSAKA--Each day during the six-month run of the Osaka Kansai Expo, Daisaku Yoshimura plans to put on a "kamishibai" picture ...

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

China’s dream to establish a Sinocentric order in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific poses a grave security threat to the United ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s high tariffs levied on imports are tossing the world around and leading to irreversible global ...

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

Two diametrically opposed court rulings have been handed down concerning accountability for the 2011 nuclear disaster. How ...

Yumiko Shiragaki, a 65-year-old Fukuoka resident, spoke haltingly about losing her husband to an illness about 30 years ago.

Nintendo’s Switch 2 launched on Thursday and is widely expected to be in short supply globally amid pent-up demand for the ...

The government announced the appointment of Masami Okino to the Supreme Court, making her an unprecedented fourth female ...