A Japanese novelist on Thursday became her country's first to win a major British award for crime and mystery writing, ...

Intense summer heat in Japan is prompting more people to buy items to prevent heat stroke and heat exhaustion, ranging from ...

Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical ...

The Chicago Bulls added Yuki Kawamura to their NBA Summer League roster Thursday, giving the former Memphis Grizzlies guard a ...

Campaigning for the House of Councillors election is officially underway in Japan, with a major focal point being measures to ...

Many Japanese rice traders expected in June that prices of the staple food would drop over the next three months, data from a ...

A Japanese diplomat is creating abstract art using sand from Israel and the Palestinian territories as symbols of prayers for ...

Sohei Kamiya, leader of the populist minor opposition Sanseito party, has courted controversy ahead of Japan's House of ...

Japan's decision to make high school tuition virtually free, even for private institutions, is raising alarm among educators ...

A Michael Jackson impersonator in Osaka is using his popularity on social media to help address issues such as overcrowding ...

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Residents on southwestern Japan's Akuseki Island are facing difficult decisions over whether to evacuate as earthquakes ...