Organizers of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) have invalidated the exam records of 803 ...

What is Japan’s national stone? Jade. I’ll bet you didn’t know that. In fact, you probably didn’t know such a thing even ...

Complaints about naked and unruly visitors have led to a ban on bathing, except for feet, at a popular open-air riverside hot ...

A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a ...

“Saikosai saibankan no kokumin shinsa,” translates to “national review of Supreme Court justices.” It is essentially a ...

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

It’s not a cornerstone beauty brand that sees up to 3,000 daily visitors at its Tokyo flagship store, but newcomer ReFa whose ...

Thirty years on, the Tamagotchi toy is still alive and kicking even in this age where smartphones and social media are the ...

HIROSHIMA--Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stopped short of ruling out future revisions to Japan’s non-nuclear weapons policy ...

Whether a travel necessity or treat, “ekiben” are getting their historical due in this city that has designated hundreds of ...

The surging popularity of tacos in Japan is changing the meaning of a common Japanese party term. “Tako” in Japanese means ...

HIROSHIMA—As Hiroshima marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Aug. 6, prayers for the dead were shadowed ...