LIMA--Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping here on the sidelines of the ...

Sipping a bowl of ceremonial tea while gazing out over Tokyo before the day really begins is an experience that’s hard to ...

Tokyo Tower is celebrating the holiday season once again with illuminations that transformed the 333-meter-high landmark in ...

OSAKA--Like a guardian looming over Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025, a life-size Gundam statue has appeared on the site.

Visitors to Kurobe Gorge, a popular tourist destination renowned for its stunning autumn foliage, can access a previously ...

NAGOYA—After a deluge of criticism, the leader of the Conservative Party of Japan retracted his suggestion that subjecting ...

Takuya Matsunaga’s emotional state had plunged to depths where he harbored thoughts of suicide and experienced graphic ...

The Imperial Household Agency announced that Princess Yuriko, aunt of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, died on Nov. 15. She was 101.

To meet the growing demand for translators in health care, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) will launch a medical ...

OSAKA—The Osaka municipal government will start to ban smoking on all public streeets across the city on Jan. 27 next year, ...

NAGOYA--A settlement with the last plaintiffs in the forced sterilization lawsuit was announced at the Nagoya High Court on Nov. 15, with the government agreeing to pay compensation to the couple and ...

Remember the mini-CD that was all rage in the 1990s when songs that dominated the charts in Japan all seemed to reach ...