The government has decided to regularly distribute additional portions of its emergency rice reserves until summer after a ...

The number of wild finless porpoises descending on Toba Port here seems to have increased this year, a boon for both a ferry ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) will begin a test run this autumn of facial recognition ticket gates to allow passengers to walk through without needing to stop or use physical tickets.

A startup has applied for approval to manufacture and sell sheets of human heart muscles generated from iPS cells that can be transplanted into patients with severe heart failure.

BANGKOK--Asian and European shares slid on Wednesday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 closing almost 4% lower after launch of the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is clearly a stickler when it comes to image, but he seems to be ignoring that quality in a ...

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday mocked Washington and its Asian allies for what she ...

TOKYO--Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in ...

Top executives of Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest crime syndicate in Japan, submitted a pledge to Hyogo prefectural police to end ...

After failing in his own attempt, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba instructed his Cabinet ministers to call on the Trump ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s high tariffs policy, which makes no exceptions even for allies and friendly nations, shakes the ...

BANGKOK--A U.S. political science scholar accused by the Thai military of insulting the Southeast Asian nation’s monarchy — ...