Most foreigners working at Japanese convenience stores are international students, many of whom have only recently arrived in ...

Japan has been beset by high rice prices for months, with a 5-kilogram bag selling for an average of 4,188 yen (approx. $27) ...

In a shuttered school north of Tokyo, office workers assemble cardboard houses in minutes, part of a travel agency's effort ...

A reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant began power generation and transmission on a trial basis Monday, as Tokyo Ele ...

Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase made a solid start in her bid for a second gold medal at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympic ...

Japan's economy grew an annualized real 0.2 percent in the October-December period, the first expansion in two quarters, government d ...

Over 90% of physicians deny the scientific efficacy of nonstandard cancer treatments not covered by public medical insurance, according to a ...

MUNICH (AP) -- A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces "civilizational erasure," pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration.

Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara placed fifth in the pairs figure skating short program Sunday at the Milan Cortina Olympics and ...

Japanese speed skater Miho Takagi won her second bronze medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday when she finished third in the ...

China's nine-day Lunar New Year holidays kicked off Sunday, with Japan dropping from the 10 most popular overseas ...

Japan's Ikuma Horishima took silver in the men's dual moguls at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Sunday as 2018 gold med ...