Organizations are trying to bring overseas refugees to Japan to ease labor shortages, improve the economy and help Tokyo ...

The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

Many closed-down “sento” public bathhouses across Japan have been reborn as cafes or even “izakaya” pubs. But a few are now ...

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...

Although Japan and China have cleared hurdles for a resumption of Japanese beef exports after a 24-year hiatus, it remains ...

Since Mount Shinmoedake began erupting on June 22, experts are continuing to closely monitor the southern Kyushu volcano in ...

According to the R-bies Sports Foundation, which tracks data on fun sports activities, Okuyama, now 97, is the oldest person ...

A popular daytrip from central Tokyo, Mount Takaosan at 599 meters high is seemingly a safe and casual hike compared to ...

A “lawless” zone here overrun by foreign visitors and plagued by bad behavior has been tamed thanks to a multi-government ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako watched how Mongolians race horses in a wild prairie setting on July 12 during a ...

OSAKA--Nayuta Sato has been playing the piano since he was 4 and always wanted to perform with his mother, who couldn’t play ...

Less than two months after being elected, Ito Mayor Maki Takubo has been asked to resign for claiming to have graduated from ...