OSAKA—Princess Aiko has visited the Osaka Kansai Expo to deepen her understanding of global cultures and the efforts of ...

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

The top-tier rugby union tournament will likely change its rules to give “Japanese players" more time on the pitch. According ...

Shares were mixed in Asia on Friday as investors pinned their hopes on weekend trade talks between China and the U.S.

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shoji Nishida on May 9 retracted and apologized for remarks denigrating a war memorial in ...

Unauthorized stock market trades using hijacked brokerage accounts have soared in recent weeks, surpassing 304.9 billion yen ...

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

NAGASAKI—In a break from last year's snubs, the city government here will invite Russia, Belarus and Israel to the annual ...

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

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

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

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