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

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

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

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.

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

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.

On a recent cold winter’s night, a family here faced off with terrifying house guests--massive ogre-like figures with broad, toothy maws and straw-covered bodies.

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 ...