In Japan, lost items are rarely disconnected from their owners for long, even in a mega city like Tokyo with the population ...

A Japanese man in his 50s with low vision who has had seven white canes broken in the past 15 years is now determined not to ...

A stately avenue formed by gingko trees in Tokyo ’s leafy Meiji Jingu Gaien area is now lit up at night. The nighttime ...

Under the plan, the U.S. would deploy missile units to the Nansei Islands of Japan's southwestern Kagoshima and Okinawa ...

TOKYO - Japan and the U.S. aim to compile a joint military plan for a possible Taiwan emergency that includes deploying ...

MUFG Bank has fired an employee for allegedly stealing assets worth between 1 billion and 2 billion yen from safe deposit ...

My wife and I couldn't wait to get back to the hushed omakase restaurants of Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. But would our young ...

Forty years after its founding, Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has more than 2,500 stores worldwide. Sales at its parent company, Fast Retailing Co., recently topped 3 trillion yen ($2 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera ...

The Prime Minister has expressed his commitment to resolving the abduction issue, as well as his willingness to hold talks ...

Japan will hold a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, which were listed this summer as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

While offering relief to low-income households, such measures encourage the continued use of the fossil fuels driving climate ...