Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and ahead of the cherry blossom ...

Japanese media say a sociology student attacked her classmates with a hammer during class after voicing frustration at being ...

In photos by chief Tokyo photographer Eugene Hoshiko, throngs of young people can be seen Monday milling about on the streets ...

China and Japan have markedly intensified their efforts to try and reinvigorate bilateral ties since the Shigeru Ishiba ...

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

China said on Thursday it would apply provisional duties on imports of industrial plastics from the United States, European ...

Such a jolt could potentially have a devastating 8-9 magnitude and trigger colossal tsunamis. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami ...

People in a community in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, braved the cold on Tuesday night to join in a New Year ritual ...

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

Japan saw a record 36.9 million foreign visitors in 2024, a 47 percent increase from the year prior. The previous record was ...

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