Mourners gathered at the site in Nara where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot three years ago on July 8 to ...

Emperor Naruhito, who has made water-related research his life’s work, visited facilities that supply water for Mongolia’s ...

An overwhelming percentage of opposition candidates in the Upper House election support a “total ban” on corporate and group donations, but the rate was zero for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a ...

A recent survey has revealed sentiments and perceptions of current Japan–South Korea relations have improved among residents of both countries compared to a similar survey taken a decade ago.

BANGKOK--Thai police said Tuesday over a dozen foreigners, mostly Australians and British, were arrested for allegedly running an online investment fraud that had duped people out of at least 1.9 ...

A Tokyo cafe is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that recommends personalized menu items after analyzing the customer’s mental and physical states.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced on June 9 that undercover police officers identified a suspect in a “yami baito” (dark part-time job) and prevented the crime from occurring.

SINGAPORE--Chinese medical office worker Qin Meng has found a lucrative side-hustle: she wakes up before midnight, fills in her clients’ divorce certificate applications on a government website ...

Tokyo has issued its highest-level evacuation advisory for Japanese nationals in Iran and is coordinating ways to get them out of harm’s way, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said June 17.

Okinawans gather at the "Konpaku no To" memorial in Itoman on June 23 and other locations to pray for those who died during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II. (Video footage by ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party set an ambitious goal of lifting the nation’s nominal gross domestic product to 1,000 trillion yen ($6.88 trillion) by 2040 among its campaign promises for ...

Researchers have developed the world’s first transparent paper that is thick enough to serve as a beverage container but also biodegradable so as to not pollute the oceans.