Sendai residents have bragging rights to living in the most comfortable city in Japan, as government statistics support their ...

Pickleball, a sport often called a miniature version of tennis, has gained so much in popularity in Japan that the country ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal—Residents along the Budhi Gandaki River in north central Nepal evacuated on Sunday as flash flooding ...

Sekihara, 41, and the colleague left the megabank and co-founded Nakaral, a startup based in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward. Nakaral gives parents a more hands-free approach to bringing their children to ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency apologized Oct. 16 after issuing an emergency warning for an earthquake that was erroneously estimated as the most powerful in recorded history. “We issued an emergency ...

Officials trialed a carry service that harkens back to the Edo Period (1603-1867) on Oct. 19 that would allow disabled ...

The government on June 24 announced details of Japan’s Growth Strategy that is topped by a public- and private-sector investment of 102 trillion yen ($630.7 billion) for artificial intelligence and ...

The Japanese government concealed the U.S. military’s acknowledgement in 2023 that two of its bases were likely sources of PFAS contamination in Okinawa Prefecture, sources said. Okinawa Prefecture ...

Mother sues 3 over video she claims drove her son to suicide ...

HAKUI, Ishikawa Prefecture—For the first time anywhere on the main island of Honshu, the endangered “toki” Japanese crested ibis was released here on May 31. About 500 local residents watched the ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, vowed that the ICC, “the last bastion for protecting the rule of law,” would survive U.S. sanctions. Akane made the comment during an ...