NAHA--Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki has no more legal cards to play in the prefecture's long-running battle to stop the ...

Four railway workers died on Aug. 20 after being struck by a Spacia X limited express train while clearing vegetation near ...

“Demand for matcha was particularly strong in overseas markets and among foreign visitors to Japan, ratcheting up overall tea ...

MAEBASHI--Gunma Governor Ichita Yamamoto brought a souvenir home from the state of Minnesota that intrigued him on his ...

A Cameroonian man who was twice rejected for refugee status and faced deportation under Japan’s tighter immigration rules ...

Japan hanged a prisoner on Aug. 21, ending the life of Sunao Takami, a 58-year-old man who killed five people when he set ...

Thirteen years after being launched amid much fanfare to promote Japanese culture overseas, the Cool Japan Fund Inc. effort ...

OSAKA--One of the most famous paintings in the Western canon went on display here on Aug. 21, as “Girl with a Pearl Earring” ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing ...

SEOUL--It was a vision to give South Korea a stock market that reflected its true economic dynamism, by shedding regulatory ...

The relief that swept the bond market just a day earlier disappeared on Thursday as oil prices, worries about ...

Summer is peak demand season at a men’s grooming clinic in Japan, where appointments are becoming harder to get as scores ...