The Japanese Council for Cultural Affairs has recommended that master brewer Naohiko Noguchi, 93, of Noto, Ishikawa ...

A 90-year-old Japanese-Filipino woman who regained her Japanese nationality this year received a passport at the Japanese ...

A 43-year-old man who filmed nuisance acts at a major Japanese conveyor-belt sushi restaurant chain and posted the videos on ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Micronesian President Wesley Simina agreed Friday to work together toward the ...

Trevor Megill was shouting in celebration and the Milwaukee Brewers were bolting out of the dugout to congratulate one ...

Fewer parents in Japan want a second child. A survey by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. found that only 28.2% of parents with ...

The horse-drawn carriages that have cruised through Central Park for more than 150 years will soon be banished from New York ...

Two crested ibises designated as Japanese natural treasures were found dead after being released on the Noto Peninsula in c ...

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A 112-year-old family-run miso producer in southwestern Japan is seeking to rebuild after a powerful earthquake in July for ...

Taiwan shut down schools and offices and grounded hundreds of flights as Typhoon Champi brushed by the island Friday, packing ...

What did a National Institute of Population and Social Security Research survey find about unmarried people in Japan ages ...