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 ...

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

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

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

Korean school students in Japan who were excluded from a program to make high school education free from fiscal 2025 are ...

Nadaman Co., an operator of high-end traditional Japanese restaurants, reopened its flagship location, Sazanka-so, on March ...

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

WASHINGTON--OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol ...

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