The 28-year-old mayor of the western Japan city of Ashiya has been picked as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential ...

This city east of Tokyo is one of the country's leading Japanese pear-producing regions, but the searing heat of recent ...

Starting as early as next spring, emergency contraceptive pills to prevent unwanted pregnancies will be available at ...

A brown bear and one of its cubs were shot and killed in the woodlands in this north Japan city's Minami Ward, the Sapporo ...

A new luxury hotel opened in Nagoya on Wednesday, with standard room prices as high as 3.75 million yen ($25,000) per night, ...

The tide has turned against a traditional winter swimming event off eastern Japan's Chiba Prefecture, which is set to end ...

Under bright lights at Mongolia's national stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Namsraijav Batsuuri grapples fiercely to defend his title ...

Hoshino Resorts Inc. is set to launch a museum in a converted prison in the city of Nara in April 2026, the company has ...

Mihama, a small town in Mie Prefecture facing the Kumano Sea, and the Republic of Nauru, a small island nation approximately ...

The autumn national traffic safety campaign* is underway. Sagamihara Minami Police Station in Kanagawa Prefecture appointed a ...

A woman in her 70s was fatally stabbed at an apartment on Tuesday in the suburbs of Tokyo, police said, with a man arrested ...

Los Angeles Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto headed into the postseason Tuesday with his second National League Pitcher of ...