The Ground Self-Defense Force on Oct. 25 unveiled its new Type 25 surface-to-ship guided missile that has a range of about ...

Trailblazer Tomoka Nishiyama has decided to take the plunge and challenge the top  professional shogi players in the ...

HONG KONG―Tens of thousands of revelers in costumes ranging from ‌evil bartenders to Donald Trump impersonators, zombies and ...

NAHA--An underage girl testifying about her alleged abduction and rape by a U.S. airman in Okinawa Prefecture gave a haunting ...

The elite Central Committee of China’s ruling Communist Party will hold a closed-door meeting from Monday to Thursday to ...

Users of car-sharing service Times Car plan to sue the operating company over a huge leak of personal information, including ...

After a six-month suspension, the government plans to resume accepting foreign workers who prepare meals at welfare facilities and schools under the Specified Skilled Worker program. The government ...

A popular Japanese cartoonist who has written books on history and monarchy has sued the government over a revised imperial ...

Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings at eye-popping valuations.

The subject of this column on Oct. 5 was a literary project in which eight writers each from Japan and France were to ...

NAGOYA—Traveling gourmands are gobbling up tickets for Kintetsu Railway Co.’s first luxury restaurant train serving French ...

Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.