Japan’s Nikkei share average inched higher on Thursday, as the U.S. Congress voted to end the historic federal shutdown, while the broader Topix index rose to a fresh peak on value-buying.

Family courts in Tokyo and Okinawa Prefecture have rejected claims for Japanese citizenship filed by four Japanese ...

Ever wanted to try your hand at being a Pokemon trainer? You now can fulfil that dream because the first-ever permanent ...

A dozen women in sports bras and tight shorts stood behind a U-shaped counter at an underground bar in a busy Tokyo ...

A dozen women in sports bras and tight shorts stood behind a U-shaped counter at an underground bar in a busy Tokyo ...

With its challenge to Japan’s conventional ideals of feminine beauty, the bar, which opened in mid-2020, draws about 100 customers on average each day, the majority of them foreign tourists, and has ...

Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan.

A flu strain that emerged over the summer is causing "unprecedented" outbreaks in Japan, as well as in Canada and the U.K.

More than a year after tennis champ Jannik Sinner tested positive in two doping tests and later accepted a three-month ban ...

Andy Rubin, creator of Android and a former Google executive, has launched a new startup focused on humanoid robots, said a ...

Now Tokyo does essentially whatever the United States tells it, Nobuyuki Fukushima, a non-factional member of the lower house of the Japanese parliament, said ...

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