KOCHI—U.S. President Donald Trump’s complaint about Japan not deploying troops to support the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran brought back a teacher’s fond memories of a student and his letter addressed ...

NAGOYA--Kintetsu Railway Co. said it will start operating a restaurant train featuring French cuisine with local products on ...

OSAKA—A fleet of electric-powered buses used to shuttle attendees during the Osaka Kansai Expo now function more as an eyesore than an emblem in a “graveyard” estimated to be worth billions of yen.

West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) has drastically changed the way it handles errors committed by its train drivers, shifting ...

Rosemary Okui Arocha has firsthand experience of how a single mistranslation can irreparably change someone's life forever.

Southeast Asian leaders met in an annual summit Friday under intense pressure to mitigate the impact on their people and ...

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

OSAKA—A little over a month before its opening, the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo is already making the records book.

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, attended the 41st World Veterinary Association Congress ...

Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak ...

Market players believe the government and Bank of Japan used more than 4 trillion yen ($25.5 billion) in another intervention ...

Working on the front lines of a conflict zone in Somalia, Yosuke Nagai, clad in a helmet and a bulletproof vest, travels in ...