WASHINGTON--Cybersecurity investigators noticed a highly unusual software crash — it was affecting a small number of ...

KITAYAMA, Wakayama Prefecture--Thrill-seekers take note: The season for white water rafting on the Kitayamagawa river is now ...

A Chinese ship ran aground in stormy weather in shallow waters off a Philippines-occupied island in the disputed South China ...

Beyond Yamashina, a district in southeastern Kyoto, I reached Nanzenji, a venerable Zen Buddhist temple. There, within the ...

Once dismissed as outdated and having little value, kimono from the postwar era are now being re-evaluated for their rich ...

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

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

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

Shigeo Nagashima, a true giant in Japanese baseball and one of the country’s most popular athletes, died of pneumonia at a ...

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

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...

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