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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

High school students from this prefecture helped to develop SaganSat0, a palm-size satellite that was recently released into ...

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.

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

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