Emperor Emeritus Akihito entered the University of Tokyo Hospital in Bunkyo Ward of the capital on July 14 as a precaution to ...

More than three years after a small sightseeing boat sank off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula here, grieving family ...

Twelve Hong Kong pro-democracy activists appealed their subversion convictions and jail terms on Monday in a national ...

SEOUL--South Korea’s transport ministry is preparing to order all airlines in the country that operate Boeing jets to examine ...

In a landmark step toward addressing the medical and ethical complexities of fetal reduction in Japan, the country’s first ...

NAGOYA—An unexploded bomb found in Nagoya city’s Marunouchi district that forced an evacuation of local residents was ...

A memorable scene from the movie “Civil War” released prior to the 2024 U.S. presidential election has a soldier pointing a ...

OSAKA—The Osaka-Kansai Expo has welcomed more than 10 million general visitors as of July 12, marking a major milestone just ...

The late Toshimi Shimono (1929-2022), a renowned Japanese folklorist and leading authority on the folk traditions of southern ...

The transport ministry will consider making “unattended delivery” the standard service for door-to-door parcel distribution ...

Criticized from all sides, the chair of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Upper House Budget Committee decided to resign from the post for a remark that angered survivors of the deadly Noto ...

KOBE—Ouka Nakanishi was 5 years old when she first saw someone’s face transform during Nankinmachi’s Lunar New Year festival.