East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced plans for a new overnight express train connecting Tokyo with the northeastern ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation ...

Business sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers has improved slightly, according to a survey by Japan’s central bank ...

As a craft beer brewer, Daichi Mori has often dreamed about serving the sprawling crowds at the Fuji Rock Festival, one of ...

A rural police station is counting on older residents to persuade their grandchildren to come back to their hometown and work ...

OSAKA—The master pyrotechnicians behind the Omagari fireworks festival, Japan’s most prestigious fireworks competition, lit ...

KYOTO--With women’s universities across Japan increasingly shifting toward coeducation or shutting their doors, Kyoto Women’s ...

The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ...

A Japanese research team has discovered a cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive, terminal ...

Tokyo police are warning residents not to be taken in by fraudsters posing as police officers after a dramatic surge in cases ...

Seeking relief from the brutal heat, I wandered into a botanical garden and found a cluster of “hangesho” (Chinese lizard's ...

Japan’s tax revenue for fiscal 2024 will likely exceed 75 trillion yen ($522 billion) for the first time, sources said, but ...