A high court ruled that the current limitations of choosing either male or female descriptors in Japan’s family registration ...

An act of vandalism that toppled 58 historic gravestones at the final resting place of prisoners who died building modern ...

His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s opposition to legalizing separate surnames for married couples is shared by only 24 percent ...

Rosemary Okui Arocha has firsthand experience of how a single mistranslation can irreparably change someone's life forever.

Toyota Motor Corp. said May 11 it will build a fourth vehicle assembly plant in India that will raise total annual production capacity to about 500,000 units in the world’s third-largest auto market.

Poet Mudo Hashimoto (1903-1974) couldn’t be happier living in a “nagaya” (traditional Japanese one-story terraced house) in ...

In response to opposition party demands, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she has directed her government to consider new ...

Nintendo’s annual profit surged 52% in the last fiscal year, lifted by solid sales of its Switch 2 machines and software.

Ted Turner, a brash television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news ...

At least 76,941 people died alone at home across Japan in 2025, and 22,222 of them were not found until at least eight days ...

NAGOYA--Kintetsu Railway Co. said it will start operating a restaurant train featuring French cuisine with local products on ...