The Upper House passed into law on June 11 a measure to convert the Science Council of Japan into a special corporation and ...

SEOUL--South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean ...

Help is at hand for customers who have hearing problems or difficulty speaking Japanese at Yamato Transport Co.’s parcel ...

Two Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted conducting simultaneous operations in the Pacific for the first time, Japanese ...

The head of the village government here hosting the Japan Atomic Power Co.’s Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant has acknowledged ...

KOBE--A university professor has filed a criminal complaint against Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito and two others over the ...

KUMAMOTO--Kimiko Nishimoto, who found success late in life as a photographer, died at a hospital here from cholangiocarcinoma ...

From the lakeside city of Otsu to Kyoto, I walked a roughly 12-kilometer stretch of the Biwako Sosui—a historic manmade ...

CHIBA—A prefectural commission plans to restrict crabbing for “gazami” crabs along the coast of Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, ...

Hong Kong police on Tuesday accused a mobile game application of advocating armed revolution and promoting secessionist ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. began loading a second reactor with fuel at its nuclear power plant in Niigata ...

In the damp, heavy air of the rainy season, I try to revive both body and spirit with meals generously garnished with ...