East Japan Railway Co. announced on March 11 the resumption of coupled operations for the Tohoku Shinkansen, following a ...

Japan’s government protested Friday to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over at least two sexual assault cases involving American ...

Some stores and medical-related facilities have refused service for people inoculated with the replicon COVID-19 vaccine ...

Responding to a wave of global affection for Punch, a baby macaque who bonded with a plush orangutan, the local government ...

When Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister last year, questions were raised on whether she would step ...

Along with signing some of the biggest stars from Japanese professional baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers are now fielding an ...

Fossil fuel-related facilities described as “tainted with pollution” account for more than 90 percent of the first round in ...

The capital's Kichijoji suburban district regularly appears in the rankings among the most desirable neighborhoods to live in ...

Author Katsumoto Saotome (1932-2022) recalls the night of the Tokyo firebombing of March 1945 in a testimonial video.

With growth slowing in the soda market, Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd. learned through its survey that young people in their ...

A new survey shows that 43.8 percent of companies in Japan would be forced to shrink their core businesses if higher oil ...

A former Imperial Japanese Navy fighter that was ditched at sea near the end of World War II finally emerged into the ...