The last remaining evacuation shelters set up in Ishikawa Prefecture last year are scheduled to close on April 13, signaling ...

A new documentary film that depicts the long campaigns waged by two Okinawa governors against the concentration of U.S.

Demand for lodgings in central Osaka is rising ahead of the Osaka Kansai Expo 2025, which opens on April 13. New hotels have ...

A satellite operated by multibillionaire Elon Mask’s SpaceX now allows smartphone subscribers in Japan to use short message ...

NARA—Of the six teenagers rushed to the hospital after being struck by lightning in a schoolyard during an evening soccer ...

The education ministry on April 10 tasked an expert advisory panel to look into establishing a new teaching system that can ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s pause in his “reciprocal tariffs” was the latest twist in a period of uncertainty for many ...

I once listened to an Australian scholar, fluent in Japanese, speak passionately about the beauty of the word “sakura-fubuki” ...

A preview of the Osaka Kansai Expo 2025 on April 9 days before its opening showed a number of contrasting exhibits that ...

When Donald Trump offered some financial advice Wednesday morning, stocks were wavering between gains and losses.

Tokyo and Washington went to great pains in 1996 to conceal the existence of a CIA office in Tokyo, saying that the news ...

Rice prices across Japan climbed for the 13th consecutive week, even as the first wave of the staple crop from the government ...