Tokyo police have arrested a 61-year-old man on suspicion of using false information to open an internet blog featuring ...

Private firms in Japan imported a record amount of rice last year. That was as prices of domestic supplies of the grain ...

Shuri Castle has long stood as a symbol of Okinawa's culture and identity. But in 2019, this World Heritage Site was ...

Evil spirits and pine cones star in an unusual ceremony to ward off bad luck at Sandenji, a Zen temple in Tamaki Town, Mie ...

A Japanese industry group says a China-based manga piracy website has been forced to close down after a criminal complaint ...

US President Donald Trump has demanded that Iran immediately negotiate a nuclear deal. He also suggested his country's next ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's administration does not intend to take further military action against Venezuela, but the president reserves ...

US IT giant Amazon says it will eliminate about 16,000 jobs worldwide. Local media say the rollout of artificial intelligence and a workforce that swelled during the pandemic era are behind the ...

Craftspeople in northeastern Japan are showcasing wooden "hina" dolls made to celebrate the upcoming Girls' Festival on March 3. The creations are based on the region's traditional "kokeshi" dolls.

Policymakers at the US Federal Reserve have left their benchmark interest rates unchanged. They had lowered the rates at ...

Police in Japan say investigators went undercover with fake IDs in 13 cases last year, leading to the arrests of five suspects in fraud and other cases.

Japanese-American hibakusha in the US ― forgotten after Hiroshima. One survivor’s lonely, decades-long struggle for medical ...