Mysterious geometric patterns dubbed “underwater crop circles” are appearing on the seafloor as the spawning season of a ...

For a Yokohama-based company falsely accused of exporting equipment that could be used to make biological weapons, the ...

Japan’s labor shortage is forcing its conservative lawmakers to consider overhauling decades-old social welfare rules ...

Asian shares were trading mixed early Thursday after Wall Street’s rally stalled as investors appeared not to react much to ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signaling he is ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to ...

CHIBA—A prefectural commission plans to restrict crabbing for “gazami” crabs along the coast of Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, ...

China slumped out of World Cup contention before Uzbekistan and Jordan qualified for the first time. In the meantime, South ...

From the lakeside city of Otsu to Kyoto, I walked a roughly 12-kilometer stretch of the Biwako Sosui—a historic manmade ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo's Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...

Princess Kako arrived here on June 5 for an official visit commemorating the 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations ...