Less than two months after being elected, Ito Mayor Maki Takubo has been asked to resign for claiming to have graduated from ...

Vertical solar panels, while now a rare sight on farmland in Japan, in this case a rice paddy, look set to transform the ...

From towers to flowers, honeybees are hard at work in the major business districts around Tokyo Station—thanks to an urban ...

Emperor Naruhito took in the golden statue of the founder of the Mongol Empire and other artifacts at the Chinggis Khaan ...

SAPPORO--Shinichiro Ando, the victim of a vicious bear attack a few years ago, says insufficient support measures have ...

A 44-year-old Sri Lankan man was arrested on July 7 on suspicion of helping fellow Sri Lankans illegally obtain residency by ...

NAGASAKI--Taiwan for the first time will attend Nagasaki’s annual Peace Memorial Ceremony on Aug. 9 to mark the 80th ...

The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, ...

TOKYO/BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey--Japan’s tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa held "in-depth exchanges" over the phone with U.S.

I saw an interesting scene in “Little Women” (2022), a South Korean serial TV drama, showing a woman released from a ...

OSAKA--Nayuta Sato has been playing the piano since he was 4 and always wanted to perform with his mother, who couldn’t play ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she ...