OSAKA--The Osaka District Court on Aug. 30 dismissed a lawsuit and a countersuit filed after the suicide of Hana Kimura, a ...

Spending by foreign visitors in Japan reached 8.13 trillion yen ($51.69 billion) in 2024, a 53.4 percent increase from the ...

KOCHI—U.S. President Donald Trump’s complaint about Japan not deploying troops to support the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran brought back a teacher’s fond memories of a student and his letter addressed ...

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

OSAKA—A fleet of electric-powered buses used to shuttle attendees during the Osaka Kansai Expo now function more as an eyesore than an emblem in a “graveyard” estimated to be worth billions of yen.

The Japan Coast Guard said it will start building its largest-ever multipurpose patrol vessel—a behemoth with a length of ...

Japanese junior and senior high school uniforms are undergoing a wave of major transformations not seen in decades, with some ...

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

Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak ...

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

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OSAKA--As Universal Studios Japan in this western metropolis celebrates its 25th anniversary, a current limited-time event ...