SEOUL—About 67,000 visitors took in traditional and modern culture from South Korea and Japan in an exchange festival here ...

The governor of Tokyo announced plans to prohibit construction of utility poles at new housing plots to accelerate ...

Japanese teachers continue to work the most hours among educators in major countries and regions, according to a survey by ...

When Mikiharu Tsujita launched Full Count in 1992, he did so with a singular, almost romantic ambition: to re-create the ...

NARA--Motoko Shimada fondly recalls when a classmate at her public school in the western Japanese city of Nara, Sanae ...

KYOTO—When the phone call came at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 8, Susumu Kitagawa thought it was just another annoying telemarketer ...

A weary Shimon Sakaguchi arrived at the University of Osaka on the morning of Oct. 7 and managed to smile as he accepted a ...

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has called for a top-level meeting with two other opposition ...

MANILA--A Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored ...

OSAKA—A ceremony held on Oct. 13 gave a positive message to the world from the Osaka Kansai Expo, an event that covered 184 ...

Furusawa Onsen is a small hot spring inn with only seven guest rooms operating in the city where Hachiko, the world’s most ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 22 swept through the Izu island chain south of Tokyo early on Oct. 9, dumping record rainfall on the ...