While her university classmates were busy studying or job hunting, Mao Nakagawa was stuck at her home in Shizuoka, struggling ...

KAMI-SHIHORO, Hokkaido—The ethereal Taushubetsugawa river bridge here, known as the "phantom bridge" because it disappears ...

Canadian convenience store chain Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has raised its offer for Seven & i Holdings Co. by ...

OSAKA—Instead of soothing employees, male company executives here on Oct. 7 were tasked with calming crying babies and other ...

Police suspect that a recent string of robberies across Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba prefectures in homes and in stores ...

A poem by Gishumon-in no Tango, a woman who is believed to have lived around the late Heian Period (794-1185) or the early ...

TAIPEI--Most Taiwanese believe China is unlikely to invade in the coming five years but do see Beijing as a serious threat to ...

Prosecutors on Oct. 8 announced that they will not appeal the Sept. 26 ruling of the Shizuoka District Court that acquitted ...

The Imperial Household Agency announced on the morning of Oct. 8 that the surgery to repair the broken femur that Empress ...

NARUTO, Tokushima Prefecture — The Otsuka Museum of Art here is offering a rare chance to dive into the world of great ...

TAKAMATSU--Kagawa’s efforts to brand itself as Japan’s “Udon Prefecture” would appear to have paid off after it ranked first ...

Yoasobi, a two-member unit who creates their works in the concept of "turning novels into music" is now a global sensation.