A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

Just days after taking office, Okinawa Governor Genta Koja traveled to Tokyo on Oct. 7 to demand an end to a long-running ...

All Seven-Eleven outlets in India have closed, reducing the number of countries and territories where the convenience store chain operates to 18.

Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday and U.S. futures advanced after shares rose to near a record close on Wall Street.

SEOUL―Samsung Electronics is expected to report a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter operating profit, driven by robust AI demand, though analysts have cut forecasts by nearly 8% since ‌the end of ...

Cyberattacks and leaks of personal information have surged this year, as companies and the National Police Agency struggle to keep pace technologically to thwart such breaches.

Three deaths in flooded underpasses in Chiba and Fukushima prefectures have prompted new safety measures, including barriers ...

The lush grasses at Ozegahara, the mountain marshland spanning the borders of Gunma, Fukushima and Niigata prefectures, have ...

A scientific research organization is warning that using diabetes medications to lose weight poses potential side effects and health risks.

Japan is not only a land of temples and shrines ... but also mosques. The latter is due to a sharp rise in marriages between Muslims and Japanese citizens and Japanese converts over two decades that ...

Japan should possess nuclear weapons, given the severe surrounding security environment and the questionable reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent, an official who advises Prime Minister Sanae ...

A total of 8,341 people in Tokyo were taken by ambulance to hospitals for suspected heatstroke from June through August amid the record summer heat wave in the capital, according to the Tokyo Fire ...