A European investment fund group said Tuesday it will acquire Kakaku.com Inc, the operator of Japan's popular Tabelog restaurant review and online reservation website, launching a takeover bid that is ...

Police in Okayama City are investigating the deaths of a 17-year-old high school boy and a 17-year-old high school girl whose bodies were found in the girl’s bedroom at her home, in what police ...

Japan's leading potato chip maker Calbee Inc will start selling some of its potato chip products in black-and-white packaging ...

European oil and gas companies who posted huge profits in the first quarter on soaring prices caused by the war in the Middle ...

China’s exports of passenger cars surged in April, an industry group said Monday, as its carmakers push to expand in overseas ...

An overwhelming majority of the House of Representatives of the Philippines voted to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday over alleged unexplained wealth and threats to have the president ...

A Tokyo-based university has opened a laboratory where robots are carrying out medical experiments once handled by human ...

Police in Fukushima City have arrested an 81-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 76-year-old disabled wife at their home. Police said Takumi Inoue is accused of hitting his wife Etsuko in the ...

A family of three were taken to hospital following an emergency call reporting a suspected spraying incident inside a JR Tokaido Line train running near Tokyo on Sunday, according to police. The ...

Key lawmakers of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party are set to launch a new group to promote the national security and ...

Japan is preparing to send an economic delegation to Russia later this month in a move aimed at laying the groundwork for ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in the central Japanese prefecture of Fukui said it halted its reactor Friday morning ...