Japanese authorities seeking to reduce the carbon footprint and overcrowding at Mount Fuji will propose a trackless, ...

Sexual minority couples will be officially recognized in Tokyo after the metropolitan assembly enacted a bill to revise the ...

Japan is set to face a shortage of around 1 million medical and welfare service workers in 2040, when the country’s elderly ...

An act of vandalism that toppled 58 historic gravestones at the final resting place of prisoners who died building modern ...

Asian stocks were mixed Monday after Wall Street set more records, and oil surged more than 3% following U.S. President ...

His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of ...

At least 76,941 people died alone at home across Japan in 2025, and 22,222 of them were not found until at least eight days ...

China’s exports of passenger cars surged in April, an industry group said Monday, as its carmakers push to expand in overseas ...

Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo’s subway network, survivors and families who lost loved ones ...

OSAKA—A fleet of electric-powered buses used to shuttle attendees during the Osaka Kansai Expo now function more as an eyesore than an emblem in a “graveyard” estimated to be worth billions of yen.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its daily trading hours by a half-hour for the first extension in 70 years to better deal ...

Starbucks announced it will raise prices of 20 or so coffee beverages and five coffee bean products at around 600 stores, or ...