The Enhanced Games have set their inaugural competition for May 2026 in Las Vegas, with swimming, athletics and weightlifting ...

A woman’s romantic affair lasted for only eight months, but it gave her plenty of international travel, opportunities to meet ...

The climbing season on Mount Fuji kicked off on July 1 with the opening of the Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.

A cap on overtime hours for truck drivers went into effect on April 1, raising concerns of future disruptions to logistics ...

KYOTO—A made-in-Japan humanoid that’s part of a project to help the country make up for lost ground in android development ...

Japan’s population shrank by 0.7 percent in 2023, although the net loss of 861,237 included a record high inflow of 329,535 ...

KOFU--A man who killed the parents of a girl who had spurned him when he was 19 became the first person sentenced to death ...

The Tokyo District Court on May 19 ordered a man to pay 1.29 million yen ($11,800) for defaming reality TV star Hana Kimura ...

A record 98.1 percent of students who graduated from university this spring had received job offers as of the April 1 start ...

A Tokyo-listed, fast-growing artificial intelligence firm is under investigation for allegedly inflating its sales figures ...

This mountain city is known as the training site for Aoyama Gakuin University, a powerhouse in the annual New Year’s Hakone ...

For decades, humble signs hand-cut from industrial tape have guided millions of commuters through the labyrinth of Tokyo’s ...