NAGASAKI--An imposing late 19th century building here that once served as an orphanage is undergoing extensive refurbishment ...

A teenager who survived for nine days trapped in rubble from the 2011 tsunami disaster later went into hiding from public view, embarrassed by “miracle rescue” descriptions of his ordeal.

CHIBA--Japanese ace Roki Sasaki will be available to Major League Baseball teams this offseason. The Chiba Lotte Marines ...

Japanese researchers have helped develop an optical quantum computer that has the potential to drastically reduce the size of ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba renewed a pledge Saturday to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance with the ...

For a change, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is more or less in a position to do what it wants.

Fishing operations are finally back to normal, well almost, at the port of Wajima in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following ...

The ruling coalition has agreed to consider a tax proposal from an opposition party to help it form a majority in the Diet.

The Board of Audit of Japan has published a critical report on the annual audit of the government’s final accounts of ...

Man is compared to a thinking reed, “ashi” in Japanese while the humble octopus is often likened to thinking legs, also “ashi ...

KOBE—Kazumi Inamura, a former Amagasaki mayor in Hyogo Prefecture, announced on Oct. 8 that she will run for the prefectural governor's seat that was recently vacated by scandal-ridden incumbent ...

NAGOYA--A team of researchers has developed a brain-training system for the early detection of, and recovery from, a state of ...