The education board of this southwestern Japan city announced on Oct. 28 that objects believed to be dice and "koppai" cards, ...

The Kizugawa Municipal Board of Education in Kyoto Prefecture announced on Nov. 2 that an administrative employee at a ...

The Japanese government has set, by Cabinet order, the requirements for designating a prefecture outside the Tokyo ...

A one-day trial run of a restaurant staffed by elderly people with dementia opened in this central Japan city on Nov. 1, with ...

The demolition of a building is underway that served as the workplace of manga artist Akira Toriyama, creator of the globally ...

An international cycling event called Cycling Shimanami 2026 was held on October 25 along the Setouchi Shimanami Kaido ...

U.S. voters headed to the polls Tuesday in midterm elections widely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump's second ...

The number of babies born to Japanese nationals in Japan rose 0.4 percent from a year ago to 320,458 in the January-June ...

A 21-year-old man who did not attend school for all nine years of elementary and junior high school recently joined his ...

Tokyo stocks ended lower in volatile trading Wednesday, with the Nikkei briefly plunging toward 60,000, as media projections ...

Democrat James Talarico flipped a U.S. Senate seat in Texas on Tuesday, defeating Republican Ken Paxton to pull off the party ...

Japan's top government spokesman said Wednesday the nation's alliance with the United States remains essential for global ...