Although Japan and China have cleared hurdles for a resumption of Japanese beef exports after a 24-year hiatus, it remains ...

A popular daytrip from central Tokyo, Mount Takaosan at 599 meters high is seemingly a safe and casual hike compared to ...

According to the R-bies Sports Foundation, which tracks data on fun sports activities, Okuyama, now 97, is the oldest person ...

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako watched how Mongolians race horses in a wild prairie setting on July 12 during a ...

A “lawless” zone here overrun by foreign visitors and plagued by bad behavior has been tamed thanks to a multi-government ...

Nestled in a small, glossy scarlet case was a “hanko” personal seal that is commonly used in Japan to serve as an official ...

U.S. President Donald Trump will host his Philippine counterpart in the White House this month to discuss how the longtime ...

OSAKA--Nayuta Sato has been playing the piano since he was 4 and always wanted to perform with his mother, who couldn’t play ...

Vertical solar panels, while now a rare sight on farmland in Japan, in this case a rice paddy, look set to transform the ...

Less than two months after being elected, Ito Mayor Maki Takubo has been asked to resign for claiming to have graduated from ...

OSAKA--Two historic artworks featuring the “26 martyrs” are back home in Japan for the first time in 94 years and on display ...