Just after 10:15 p.m. in late November, three young women were wandering around a cul-de-sac in a sleepy residential area ...

Glance around the grounds and listen to discover that not only devout followers and tourists congregate at shrines and ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has announced plans to open a prototype smart city at the foot of Mount Fuji as early as this fall.

Nippon Steel Corp. accused U.S. President Joe Biden of giving into powerful lobbying forces and unlawfully blocking its ...

Masahisa Takemi, 50, is the adviser of the track and field club at the Tokyo Metropolitan Chuo School for the Deaf in Tokyo's ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya expressed “deep disappointment” to a top U.S. official over President Joe Biden’s decision to ...

Technology that preserves the freshness of fruit and vegetables in the blink of an eye is no longer in the realm of ...

Over the course of a year, a stampede of tourists 200 times larger than the local population barrels through this northern ...

Upmarket cashmere knit sweaters produced at a factory in this northeastern city are warming wearers across the globe as they ...

A street entertainer who counts Tokyo’s Shibuya as his patch has only nice things to say to the people he meets.

A bluefin tuna caught off northern Japan fetched 207 million yen ($1.31 million) in the inaugural auction of 2025 at Tokyo’s ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba denied the possibility of seeking a multiparty coalition after opposition leaders rejected his ...