Pickleball, a sport often called a miniature version of tennis, has gained so much in popularity in Japan that the country ...

Sendai residents have bragging rights to living in the most comfortable city in Japan, as government statistics support their ...

Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning ...

OSAKA--A major hospital here suspended routine medical services after a ransomware cyberattack shut down the facility’s electronic medical record system, officials said on Oct. 31. Osaka General ...

Japan has ⁠started its first nationwide survey ⁠of animal cafes amid concerns over animal welfare, hygiene and public health, a government official said, bringing greater scrutiny ⁠to the popular but ...

SEOUL—North Korea on Monday fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s military said, adding ...

NIKKO--Long after sunset, Motoaki Iijima’s illuminated greenhouse north of Tokyo glows like a lantern as the flower farmer harvests pink ‌and orange gerberas, avoiding a daytime sun fierce enough to ...

The number of COVID-19 deaths plummeted by 40 percent in 2025 from the previous year, but the infectious disease still killed around 21,000 senior citizens. The death toll from COVID-19 has declined ...

Vietnam police have arrested three people, including a Norwegian citizen and an Australian national of Vietnamese origin, accusing them of terrorism, in an operation that a pro-democracy group says ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing his uncle’s final days and imagining how his life ended in the inferno of ...

The Cabinet on Sept. 15 approved the outline for a consumption tax cut on food and related support measures but offered no specifics on the revenue source for the multitrillion-yen project. The ...

WASHINGTON―US and Japanese government officials and company officials met to discuss supply bottlenecks affecting ‌access to Chinese yttrium, a rare earth metal vital to aerospace and chipmaking, ⁠two ...