Tokyo's hip Shibuya district boasts a long list of tourist hotspots, including the iconic scramble crossing, where thousands ...

OSAKA—Three days after winning the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament, Kirishima was promoted to ozeki here on March 25, returning ...

YOKOHAMA--On a recent winter day, five members of a volunteer firefighting brigade based here were standing in front of the ...

Japan's core consumer inflation slowed below the central bank's ​2% target in February for the first time in nearly four ...

Although foreign residents have become a more common sight in Japan, they continue to face difficulties gaining housing due ...

The Toyota group's tender offer to take supplier Toyota Industries private at a price of 20,600 yen ($129.89) per share has ...

OSAKA—City workers on March 24 began cutting down a massive steel pipe that jutted up 13 meters from the ground near JR Osaka ...

Chemical prices are rising against the backdrop of mounting tensions in the Middle East, and the impact is gradually ...

The government approved a bill to revise the Drone Law that would expand no‑fly zones around sensitive facilities and impose ...

MORIOKA—The first bullet train retrofitted exclusively for freight transport started regular service from Morioka to Tokyo on ...

Unions have reported an average wage hike of 5.26 percent for permanent employees so far in the “shunto” spring labor ...

Japan's health ministry will begin trialing artificial intelligence to analyze X-ray images in cancer screenings, which is ...