Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday signaled that increasing corn imports from the U.S. would be among options ...

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

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

OSAKA—The boy character on packaging of the long-selling Bisco biscuit has been redesigned for the first time in 20 years to increase overseas sales. Bisco Boya (Bisco boy) is now shown with ...

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

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

German author Erich Kastner (1899-1974), whose works included children’s literature, secretly kept a diary while resisting ...

The five-member male idol group Arashi announced on May 6 that it will end activities with a concert tour to be held next ...

NAGOYA--A colossal tapestry from France depicting a scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece “Spirited Away” is on ...

Kagoshima finally dethroning the nation's top tea-growing prefecture sent shock waves through local producers.

Soft light streaming through the ceiling blanketed over a thousand parishioners attending a recent Sunday afternoon Mass at St. Ignatius Catholic Church as strong voices sang an uplifting hymn in ...

NEW YORK—Two saplings of “hibaku jumoku" (atomic-bombed trees) were planted in a garden on the grounds of the U.N.