This city east of Tokyo is one of the country's leading Japanese pear-producing regions, but the searing heat of recent ...

The 28-year-old mayor of the western Japan city of Ashiya has been picked as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential ...

The tide has turned against a traditional winter swimming event off eastern Japan's Chiba Prefecture, which is set to end ...

Japan's top tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said Wednesday he hopes the country's next leadership will continue efforts to ...

A new luxury hotel opened in Nagoya on Wednesday, with standard room prices as high as 3.75 million yen ($25,000) per night, ...

Indonesian rescue workers were racing against the clock on Wednesday in the search for survivors from a school collapse in ...

Pro-Palestinian protests are shaking major European cities, and calls are growing to ban Israel from sporting and cultural ...

Starting as early as next spring, emergency contraceptive pills to prevent unwanted pregnancies will be available at ...

A brown bear and one of its cubs were shot and killed in the woodlands in this north Japan city's Minami Ward, the Sapporo ...

Hoshino Resorts Inc. is set to launch a museum in a converted prison in the city of Nara in April 2026, the company has ...

The autumn national traffic safety campaign* is underway. Sagamihara Minami Police Station in Kanagawa Prefecture appointed a ...

The Nikkei stock index fell Wednesday for a fourth consecutive trading day, weighed down by wariness over the impact of a ...