To help spread the appeal of sake overseas, a sake brewery tour for international students from within Akita Prefecture was held at Kodama Brewing Co. in Katagami in the prefecture on Feb. 14.

The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry on Tuesday asked Ogasawara Village, which is under the jurisdiction of Tokyo, for ...

The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that ordered the dissolution of the Family Federation for World ...

Torchbearers bring together Paralympic flames from five Italian cities including Milan and Turin during a flame unification ...

A total lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon align, and the moon enters Earth’s shadow. The Earth’s atmosphere acts both like a filter — scattering shorter-wavelength blue light — and ...

Space One Co. announced the cancelation of the launch of its Kairos 3rd Flight rocket shortly before it was scheduled to lift ...

The World Baseball Classic, a tournament pitting nations and regions against each other to determine the world’s best baseball team, will begin on March 5.

Speedskater Miho Takagi, Japan’s most decorated Winter Olympian with 10 medals, said Wednesday that she will retire from ...

A sell-off for stocks wrapped around the world and hit Wall Street Tuesday, while oil prices climbed even higher on worries ...

North Korea will hold an election on March 15 to pick delegates for its Supreme People’s Assembly, KCNA state news agency ...

Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a district court order for the dissolution of the controversial religious group Unification Church, stripping the organization of its status as a religious ...

Yomiuri Shimbun file photoThe Tokyo Stock Exchange Reuters [posttime] JST, [postdate] TOKYO, March 4 (Reuters) – Japan’s ...