The five-member male idol group Arashi announced on May 6 that it will end activities with a concert tour to be held next ...

Rice prices at supermarkets around Japan rose for the 17th straight week, despite the release of thousands of tons from the ...

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING--U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer will meet China’s ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his munitions industry to boost the production of artillery shells, ...

NEW YORK—Two saplings of “hibaku jumoku" (atomic-bombed trees) were planted in a garden on the grounds of the U.N.

Kagoshima finally dethroning the nation's top tea-growing prefecture sent shock waves through local producers.

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

The Vietnam, India and Brunei pavilions have officially opened at the Osaka Kansai Expo, more than two weeks later than those ...

AKITA—An elderly man died on May 2 after being found collapsed on the ground near a broken blade from a wind turbine here, ...

Soft light streaming through the ceiling blanketed over a thousand parishioners attending a recent Sunday afternoon Mass at ...

Lawyers groups are pressing Japan to join other countries in demanding the United States rescind its sanctions imposed on the ...