Shogi” fans have a new destination to flock to in the capital where they can play the traditional game and attend commentary ...

Costs for safety measures by 11 power companies to restart idle reactors at their nuclear power plants nationwide in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima disaster have ballooned to 6.5 trillion yen ...

Ukrainian Aonishiki is filled with gratitude toward his Japanese “family” who helped him to enter the sumo world, win his ...

An in-house hospital team here has developed a language app for foreign patients to prevent delays in medical care and avoid miscommunication that could cause potentially disastrous mistakes.

Typhoon No. 25 is expected to bring torrential rain to the Kanto-Koshin region on the afternoon of Sept. 21, and the Japan ...

The first cases of damage from Typhoon No. 25 were reported on the afternoon of Sept. 21, including a mudslide that buried a woman in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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

The main Kremlin party retained its majority in Russia’s parliament, election officials said Monday, after a carefully orchestrated balloting that excluded most opposition candidates and helped the ...

WASHINGTON—When President Donald Trump first ran for office, he called out China as a menace to the U.S. economy, saying it had gutted America’s factories and eroded the middle class.

KATHMANDU--Three months before a wall of water, mud and rock killed hundreds when it hurtled down a Himalayan valley bordering Nepal and China, experts and officials from both countries met in ...

ASAHIKAWA, Hokkaido—The highly awaited Golden Week reopening of one of Japan’s most popular zoos has been delayed after an employee reportedly told police he disposed of his wife’s body in an on-site ...

Japan’s government on Aug. 7 officially launched a contentious debate on capping its foreign population as a high-level working group convened for the first time to hash out a future immigration ...