OITA -- A graduate student here has been developing an "inconvenient robot" that is selfish and whose battery cannot be ...

A picture book published in Russia last year examines the experiences of Japanese civilians who were forced to leave Karafuto ...

The president of the operator of a sightseeing boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in 2022, leaving all 26 ...

Japan will evacuate its nationals from four Middle East countries on chartered aircraft, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said ...

Her sister left for Japan full of dreams. Then, without warning, she died. March 6 marks five years since Wishma Sandamali, a ...

A 69-year-old woman was indicted Thursday for a 1999 murder in Nagoya, central Japan, after a prosecutor investigation ...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran has declared a blockade of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key maritime ...

The World Baseball Classic started on Thursday as Australia defeated Taiwan 3-0 at Tokyo Dome in the opener for Pool C, which ...

A luxurious Imperial Hotel opened Thursday in Kyoto's Gion district in western Japan, renovating a traditional performing ...

Panasonic Corp. estimates that the economic loss from hay fever in Japan totals about 245 billion yen (about $1.6 billion) ...

The Tokyo High Court has issued an order to dissolve the Unification Church, upholding a March 2025 decision by the Tokyo ...

Tokyo stocks surged Thursday morning, with the benchmark Nikkei index briefly rising over 4 percent, following Wall Street ...