Doctors and experts have grown alarmed about the sudden increase in emergency room visits among teens and 20-somethings who ...

For weeks, Ukrainian troops braced for an unfamiliar enemy: North Korean soldiers sent to bolster Moscow’s forces after ...

SHANGHAI—Japan is expected to be a prime destination for Chinese tourists during the nation’s seven-day Golden Week due to ...

Iwatani Corp. announced that it has completed building a boat that runs completely on hydrogen fuel cells and will transport ...

Japanese media portrayals of male and female athletes competing in the Olympic Games still exhibit gender bias despite making ...

A notorious crime, known as the “Girard Incident,” occurred on Jan. 30, 1957, at a U.S. military training range at the foot ...

The former president of a century-old onsen inn under fire for only replacing its bathwater twice a year was found dead on ...

The Tokyo District Court ruled in favor of Japanese cabin crews who had worked for a Dutch airline by applying a law in the ...

The transport ministry issued administrative guidance to Japan Post Co. over the failure to hold a mandatory sobriety check ...

The Bank of Japan maintained ultra-low interest rates on Friday and its pledge to keep supporting the economy until inflation sustainably hits its 2% target, suggesting it was in no rush to phase out ...

Japan's prewar Special Higher Police (Tokubetsu Koto Keisatsu, or Tokko for short) was a "thought police" unit that cracked ...

Nineteen people were taken to hospitals after a pungent odor spread at the Ginza Six commercial complex in downtown Tokyo around noon on May 25. An eyewitness said someone sprayed what may have been ...