The five-member male idol group Arashi announced on May 6 that it will end activities with a concert tour to be held next ...

Rice prices at supermarkets around Japan rose for the 17th straight week, despite the release of thousands of tons from the ...

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

NARUTO, Tokushima Prefecture–The famed whirlpools of the Naruto Strait are swirling at their seasonal peak, the natural ...

WASHINGTON/BEIJING--U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer will meet China’s ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his munitions industry to boost the production of artillery shells, ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.

NEW YORK—Two saplings of “hibaku jumoku" (atomic-bombed trees) were planted in a garden on the grounds of the U.N.

AKITA—An elderly man died on May 2 after being found collapsed on the ground near a broken blade from a wind turbine here, ...

Lawyers groups are pressing Japan to join other countries in demanding the United States rescind its sanctions imposed on the ...

The town of Futaba, cohost to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, was entirely evacuated after the Great East ...

The prospect of snatching up one of Japan’s abandoned homes is a well-trod exercise in “what if,” but reviving a dilapidated ...