A chemical manufacturer has built a plant here to collect and recycle superabsorbent polymers (SAP) from used disposable ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An interpreter’s mistake prompted Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent reference to her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, ...

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

Residents here have turned what would be considered sacrilegious vandalism anywhere else into a traditional summer festival.