Children who are often asked how they are feeling or what their opinions are by adults tend to have a higher quality of ...

Central Japan Railway Co. said Thursday it has temporarily halted construction work on a new high-speed maglev train line ...

TOKYO -- Terms like "bath-canceling," Japanese cartographer "Ino Tadataka," and "nature" may seem unrelated at first glance.

(This is Part 18 of the "Learning from Japanese picture books" series, which introduces recommended Japanese picture books, ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- The first time China faced Donald Trump in the White House, there was a trade war, a breach of ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's household spending in September fell a real 1.1 percent from a year earlier, government data showed ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major listed Japanese companies are expected to see a fall in their combined net profit for the six months ...

Nippon Steel Corp. hopes to complete its planned acquisition of United States Steel Corp. by the end of the year, before U.S.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory in his first public comment ...

The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter-point in response to the steady decline in the once-high ...

In an unfathomably shocking comeback, former President Donald J. Trump of the Republican Party has declared victory in the ...

Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters are seen in Kobe's Chuo Ward in this February 2019 file photo. (Mainichi/Jun Yoneyama) ...