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

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

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.

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.

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

The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical legacy.

Three men from Myanmar were arrested on suspicion of murdering a countryman outside of a nightclub in Tokyo’s Shinjuku ...

OSAKA--A futuristic “human washing machine” that caused a stir at the 1970 Japan World Exposition has undergone a 21st century makeover for the Osaka Kansai Expo in April. The original machine, ...

Yahoo Japan Corp. said it will render its website inaccessible across most of Europe starting April 6 due to the excessive regulatory burden. An official from Yahoo Japan said on Feb. 1 that the ...

KANUMA, Tochigi Prefecture—Four railway workers died on Aug. 20 after being struck by a Spacia X limited express train while clearing vegetation near Shin-Kanuma Station on the Tobu Nikko Line in ...

A Japanese voice actor has sued the operator of TikTok, arguing that video postings using an AI-generated voice on the social media platform infringed on his rights to his voice. Kenjiro Tsuda, known ...