Daisaku Ikeda, who helped spread Buddhist thought around the world through Soka Gakkai - Japan’s largest religious ...

In April 2016, the vernacular Asahi Shimbun ran a story with a headline that may translate as: “Arms export push hits a bump: ...

KOBE—Roxana Oshiro recalls the nerve-racking time when she crawled out of her broken wooden apartment during the 1995 Great ...

HAMAMATSU—The production of the famed Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer ended just two years after its launch in 1980 primarily ...

The studio of Kyoichiro Ozawa, 66, sits in a mountain area surrounded by lush greenery and the chirping of wild birds.

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Steel Corp. have hammered out a 20 to 30 percent price hike for the steel supplied to the major ...

A long rupture on the ground extending through infrastructure damage in Kumamoto Prefecture seems to confirm what seismologists had long feared: a major earthquake stemming from the active Hinagu ...

Prudential Life Insurance Co.’s massive employee fraud scandal continues spreading, revealing another 125 victims and an additional 790 million yen ($4.82 million) in financial damages on July 24. The ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered 4-meter (13-foot) tsunami waves and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and across the Pacific on Wednesday.

The Fair Trade Commission on June 16 began on-site inspections of six major ice cream producers over allegations they formed a pricing cartel that reduced competition and hurt consumers, sources said.

Temperatures surged to the 40-degree range in central Japan on July 21 for the first time in Japan this year, as the nation continued to bake following the end of the rainy season. Gujo, Gifu ...

The U.S. Navy minesweeper Warrior entered Hakodate Port in Hokkaido on Sept. 9 for maintenance work by a private Japanese ...