A consortium of a Japanese university and businesses will team up with a state government in Australia for a project to mass ...

SYDNEY--The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has issued rare criticism of China over last month’s launch of an ...

With Halloween around the corner, Tokyo administrators are exploring ways to curtail the rise in public drinking, noise and ...

When I hear or see the word “magokoro,” I picture an advertisement of a person holding out a summer “ochugen” gift box with a ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s decision to “punish” scandal-tainted lawmakers in the Lower House election has sparked an ...

The auction for Shohei Ohtani’s potentially lucrative 50th home run ball has been allowed to proceed as a legal dispute over ...

A long sought-after bill to provide compensation to people with disabilities who were forcibly sterilized under the former ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will speed up steps toward becoming a military superpower with ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Kishiba has changed his stance on the Liberal Democratic Party’s support for Lower House election ...

Japan's inflation-adjusted wages fell in August after two months of increases during the summer bonus season, while household ...

Advances in medical technology and genetic research — not to mention larger numbers of people making it to age 100 — are not ...

Justice Minister Hideki Makihara confirmed on Oct. 8 that he attended at least 10 gatherings and meetings organized by the ...