A local supermarket has won grand prize four years in a row in a major deli dish competition. We follow the deli dish maker ...

Health tech entrepreneur Ajima Masumi has developed an app to analyze the condition of children with developmental disorders, ...

Canadian cultural anthropologist Edmund Hoff explores Japan's shotengai. While shopping malls are on the rise worldwide, he ...

Traditional Tsukemono, or pickles, preserve centuries of wisdom, allowing the vegetables' inherent flavors to shine. Picklers ...

How can farming in Japan be made more exciting? That question drives a farmer from Indonesia who sees potential to help his ...

US President Donald Trump has told Americans in his State of the Union address that he has engineered the biggest "economic ...

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index broke through the 59,000 mark to set a new record high in intraday trading on Thursday.

Kumamoto City in southwestern Japan says a new type of cherry tree has been found in the grounds of Kumamoto Castle.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have confirmed that their countries will strengthen economic and other cooperation.

Japan's tallest structure, Tokyo Skytree, is set to reopen to visitors on Thursday after a closure due to a problem with an ...

In regions that experience heavy snowfall, railways use snowplows in combination with other systems to keep the trains running. See how the railways maintain service in Japan's snow country.

A commission of Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party has accepted a draft proposal to abolish a restriction that ...