The Shinto shrine is regarded by neighboring Asian countries such as South Korea and China as a symbol of Japan’s wartime ...

Companies may be enjoying a summer sales boost, but behind the scenes they are preparing for a future where consumers want ...

U.S. technology giant Google opened its first directly run store outside the United States in Tokyo’s fashionable Omotesando district Thursday. The store sells smartphones and offers repair services.

First-year ⁠Browns coach Todd Monken told reporters on Wednesday that Watson will play the first half against the Bears.

The number of passport applications in Japan in July increased 1.6 times from a year earlier to about 530,000, following a fee reduction starting that month, it was learned Thursday. There were about ...

Crown Prince Akishino declined to discuss the revised Imperial House Law, enacted last month, at a news conference at the Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo on Thursday. “I have various thoughts,” but ...

Etorofu is among a group of islands off the east coast of Hokkaido that are occupied by the former Soviet Union and are claimed by Japan.

Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a 54-year-old woman on suspicion of killing her 89-year-old mother at her home in the ...

Taipei says Beijing was trying to create a false impression that it controls waters east of Taiwan, where the drills were ...

Both airlines had raised the surcharges on the routes for tickets issued in July and August to a record ¥65,000 from ¥56,000 ...

A coach has gotten millions of views on social media by using parkour techniques to teach the elderly things such as better ...

Technical wreck diver Kingo Wakasa, 56, is going against all odds to document the rusted hull of the USS Emmons destroyer on ...