A nephew of the Japanese girl who became synonymous with the suffering caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima handed ...

Mount Fuji recorded its first snowcap of the season on Oct. 30, appearing 28 days later than usual on the second-latest date ...

Kana Sekiya, 43, used to shop near a train station in Tokyo on her way back home from work. Now she drives more than 30 ...

An emotional yokozuna Onosato could not hold back the tears after ending a yearlong wait for a championship in convincing fashion at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 27. As Japan’s national ...

SoftBank’s promise to pay its highest-ever yields in a record $11 billion junk-bond offering highlights the pressure on CEO Masayoshi Son to secure returns on his all-in bet on AI amid concerns about ...

RIYADH—Yemen’s Houthis said they attacked “sensitive” sites in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday with missiles and drones, hours after flames and a large plume of smoke were seen ‌near the city’s ...

NANAO, Ishikawa Prefecture—About 1,200 guests and visitors were at the Wakura Onsen resort here on the Noto Peninsula when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake rocked the area on Jan. 1, 2024. Despite the chaos ...

LONDON—Akira Otani’s gangland thriller centered around two women is the first Japanese work to win the translation division of the prestigious Dagger Awards. “The Night of Baba Yaga,” translated by ...

Abandoned luggage is becoming a growing problem at airports across Japan, posing a major security headache. Passengers often ...

Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said ...

The Tokyo District Court on Dec. 9 sentenced a former teacher at a junior high school in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting and injuring a female student at the school ...

KARUIZAWA, Nagano Prefecture—Just in time to offer a respite from the summer heat, the famed Mampei Hotel, which hosted luminaries such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono during its long history, partly ...