The Tokyo Bay Grand Fireworks Festival, a summer treat last held in 2015, is returning next year as part of a special ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

WASHINGTON--Japan and the United States failed to find common ground in their fifth round of talks on Washington’s high ...

When Masaya Kobayashi moved to Tokyo after graduating from a college in Kanazawa, he thought about renting an apartment at ...

Rice shortages are pushing food banks to the brink of closure and threatening to hurt the most needy in society.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s high tariffs levied on imports are tossing the world around and leading to irreversible global ...

OSAKA--Each day during the six-month run of the Osaka Kansai Expo, Daisaku Yoshimura plans to put on a "kamishibai" picture ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...

In the battle for financial survival, some sumo stables are inviting overseas groups of tourists to watch their morning ...

Nintendo’s Switch 2 launched on Thursday and is widely expected to be in short supply globally amid pent-up demand for the ...

WASHINGTON--The U.S. declined to label China a currency manipulator in a new Treasury report released Thursday but accuses ...

Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong on Friday was charged with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger ...