The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has called for a top-level meeting with two other opposition ...

SEOUL—About 67,000 visitors took in traditional and modern culture from South Korea and Japan in an exchange festival here ...

Furusawa Onsen is a small hot spring inn with only seven guest rooms operating in the city where Hachiko, the world’s most ...

KOBE--A stone wall shields the south side of a sprawling house in a quiet residential area here while several surveillance ...

Stripping off for a sauna no longer means taking off your watch. Casio Computer Co. announced it will release a wristwatch on ...

Researchers plan to install the first Japanese radio telescope in Antarctica to study how stars are formed, enhancing the ...

A rare treat awaits the artworld in November when paintings by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall and Henri ...

When Mikiharu Tsujita launched Full Count in 1992, he did so with a singular, almost romantic ambition: to re-create the ...

MANILA--A Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored ...

KYOTO—When the phone call came at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 8, Susumu Kitagawa thought it was just another annoying telemarketer ...

Japanese teachers continue to work the most hours among educators in major countries and regions, according to a survey by ...

Concerns about the fiscal outlook in Japan sent the yen to a more than seven month low against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday and ...