Starting Dec. 2, Japan's conventional health insurance cards will no longer be usable. However, the Ministry of Health, Labor ...

High school tuition in Japan will soon become effectively free, including for private high schools, but that does not mean ...

Japan's hot spring culture, currently under consideration by a government council for a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage ...

The Chinese government urged its citizens on Friday to avoid visiting Japan as recent remarks by Prime Minister Sanae ...

I realized the convenience store cashier might be recognizing me when he stopped asking whether I needed a bag, nodding in ...

Yokozuna Onosato stayed in the outright lead Saturday at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament by toppling rank-and-file opponent ...

Japan said Saturday it has lodged a protest with China after Beijing advised its citizens to avoid visiting the neighboring ...

The average price of rice sold at supermarkets across Japan reached a record 4,444 yen ($28) per 5 kilograms, the farm ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western i ...

The Japan Deaf Football Association has been conducting a crowdfunding campaign to livestream all soccer matches of the Tokyo ...

CHIBA -- The Matsudo Municipal Government in Chiba Prefecture has developed "Meta-Matsu," a three-dimensional virtual space ...

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was scrapping U.S. tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and a broad swath ...