Innovative, homeless 43-year-old with huge gambling debts randomly stops strangers and compliments them in return for money.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not ...

Two-thirds of Japanese companies are experiencing a serious business impact from a shortage of workers, a Reuters survey ...

For the head of a 177-year-old listed company, there’s no hard and fast way to prevent people comparing you to a mafia boss.

World stocks are mixed follow Wall Street’s mostly positive performance ahead of key U.S. inflation data that could influence ...

As anyone who’s ever looked into the prospect of studying abroad at anything beyond the idle daydream level can attest, it’s ...

Jockey Kosuke Matsumoto, 43, has died after an incident at Japan's Sonoda Racecourse on Monday, reports the Racing Post.

After travelling to Tokyo for meetings, Yoshiki Kojima's IT company employees crash out in a capsule hotel, as a tourism boom ...

Record numbers of tourists flocked to Japan last year, figures showed Wednesday, as the weak yen bolstered the appeal of the ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said that China-Japan relations are currently in a critical period for improvement and development.

Decluttering expert Marie Kondo's best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up was a global phenomenon, changing ...