A woman’s attempt to regain her confidence and send a message to her unfaithful husband resulted in pain, possible permanent ...

NAHA--The Okinawa prefectural assembly unanimously passed a resolution May 9 calling on the government and U.S. Forces Japan ...

Emperor Emeritus Akihito was discharged from a hospital in Tokyo on May 10 after undergoing cardiac tests. Akihito, 91, ...

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

German author Erich Kastner (1899-1974), whose works included children’s literature, secretly kept a diary while resisting ...

Museum collections professor Ayumi Terada admitted being overwhelmed by the lack of diversity in an exhibition she organized ...

BEIJING--Four boats capsized in a sudden storm on a river in southwestern China, leaving nine people dead and one missing, ...

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

OSAKA—The boy character on packaging of the long-selling Bisco biscuit has been redesigned for the first time in 20 years to ...

In early summer 1877, the 10th year of the Meiji Era (1868–1912), a passenger ship from San Francisco arrived at Yokohama ...

Waymo LLC, which operates fully autonomous, driverless taxis in the United States, has announced that it would start ...