Japan’s top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, could travel to Washington as soon as next week for a third round of trade ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 training aircraft after one of ...

Japan's three largest banking groups posted record annual net profit in the last financial year, benefitting from increased ...

Mio Ikeda stumbled across a future hit product when she discovered “firm tofu” at U.S. supermarkets in 2018 soon after she ...

The inaugural Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremonies will be held on May 21 and 22, with hopes it will gain the prestige of the ...

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

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...

Waymo LLC, which operates fully autonomous, driverless taxis in the United States, has announced that it would start ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--Mao Saigo was shaking with nervousness before her birdie putt on the first hole of a five-way playoff Sunday in the Chevron Championship. The 23-year-old Japanese player ...

The education ministry will review its enrollment eligibility requirements for financial aid after a larger than expected number of private junior colleges, particularly those in rural regions ...