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

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 ...

Japan ranked dead last among 18 economies surveyed for workplace well-being, with just 49.1 percent of employees reporting ...

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

For the first time, U.N. special rapporteurs called on the Japanese government to consider declaring a moratorium on capital ...

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

A labor union at a major airport ground service provider has threatened to break a key labor-management agreement as it demands fewer flights be serviced to rein in ballooning overtime work.

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

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. is in deep waters for using slush funds to entertain and provide gifts to Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine crew members.

The biggest life-changer for snowboard champion Ayumu Hirano since he won an Olympic gold medal: He became a father.

YANGON--Supporters and opponents of Myanmar’s military government are engaged in a bloody civil war, but a celebration Wednesday feted something almost all find worthy: the use of thanakha, a ...