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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

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

Fewer Japanese believe their society is rooted in democracy compared with 10 years ago, a survey by The Asahi Shimbun shows.

NAGOYA--A colossal tapestry from France depicting a scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece “Spirited Away” is on ...