Night owls this weekend can enjoy one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, with the Geminids blazing trails in ...

KYOTO—The character for “kuma” (bear) is the kanji of the year, a not unexpected choice that narrowly edged out the character ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking leap in identifying a set of gilt‑bronze armor fittings adorned with an intricate ...

Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steelmaker, expects its annual global crude steel production capacity to rise to at least 100 ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his U.S counterpart, Pete Hegseth, held telephone talks on “increasingly ...

The Bank of Japan will likely maintain a pledge next week to keep raising interest rates, but stress the pace of further ...

China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, with President Xi Jinping not attending, ...

It is infuriating to be treated unfairly. You might let it go at first. But later, your anger will start a slow burn while ...

Black Box Diaries,” a documentary in which Japanese journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault case and the ...

A released government document confirms that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi went off-script when responding in the Diet to a hypothetical question involving Taiwan that has worsened relations with ...

The information added another layer of shock and sadness for the parents. The acquaintance, the last person to see their son ...

A Japanese research team has confirmed a new clione species first found about a decade ago that is believed to have evolved ...