Japan just experienced its hottest summer on record. The record high national average temperature from June to August was 2.36 degrees hotter than average, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Sept. 1 ...

Memorial events were held in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area on Sept. 1 to pray for the victims of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and ethnic Koreans massacred as a result of unfounded rumors ...

India and China are development partners, not rivals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on Sunday, as they discussed ways to improve trade ties amid global tariff ...

OSAKA--Colorful signboards adorning multi-tenant buildings in the downtown Dotonbori district helped spread a raging fire ...

Reiko Kanazawa, who serves as the seventh-generation "okami" proprietress of Nadaman's main restaurant Sazanka-so in Tokyo's ...

YOKOHAMA--The son of a falsely accused man who died as a defendant called on senior police officials and prosecutors to ...

Japan Post Co. will temporarily suspend acceptance of certain U.S.-bound mail items from Aug. 27 following U.S. President ...

KYOTO--Researchers from Kyoto University announced the development of a painkiller that relieves suffering more safely than ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

Tokyoites continued to bake in the intense heat as the thermometer once again soared above 35 degrees in central Tokyo on Aug ...

The working-from-home trend and employee resistance have prompted some companies to introduce personnel systems that allow ...

KOBE—A man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a woman here has told police that he had no prior connection to the ...