A record high 3,623 people were stranded on mountains across Japan last year, including nearly 250 visitors from abroad, ...

Amid much fanfare and hoopla, the second Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremony ramped up the excitement by bringing together ...

MOSCOW—Russia introduced a ban on diesel exports on Wednesday as part of a raft of ‌measures to support the domestic fuel ...

KUMAMOTO--A Taiwanese man who runs a real estate investment business in Japan was dealing with an influx of inquiries from ...

When Shintaro Mochizuki fell to the grass in celebration at Wimbledon on July 1, he was the latest example of a quiet ...

SINGAPORE—The yen bounced on Friday on news that Japan plans to encourage ‌pension funds to increase their holdings of ...

Tokyo police said July 7 they have arrested three members of a medical association on suspicion of receiving payments for ...

With the Major League Baseball draft just days away, Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki faces a career decision that has ...

ISHIGAKI--A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan's southwest on Friday, prompting ...

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

Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in ...

The ruling coalition agreed to shelve a bill on reducing the number of Lower House seats in an attempt to ensure passage of ...