NAGASAKI--An imposing late 19th century building here that once served as an orphanage is undergoing extensive refurbishment ...

A teenager who survived for nine days trapped in rubble from the 2011 tsunami disaster later went into hiding from public view, embarrassed by “miracle rescue” descriptions of his ordeal.

Minako Ishida spent two years frequenting a white mansion suspended over the sea, eager to grasp just what about the property ...

For a change, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is more or less in a position to do what it wants.

Japanese researchers have helped develop an optical quantum computer that has the potential to drastically reduce the size of ...

Man is compared to a thinking reed, “ashi” in Japanese while the humble octopus is often likened to thinking legs, also “ashi ...

The Burrn! music magazine marked the 40th anniversary of its foundation despite finding itself in a jam over drastic changes ...

CHIBA--Japanese ace Roki Sasaki will be available to Major League Baseball teams this offseason. The Chiba Lotte Marines ...

NAGOYA--A team of researchers has developed a brain-training system for the early detection of, and recovery from, a state of ...

Fishing operations are finally back to normal, well almost, at the port of Wajima in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba renewed a pledge Saturday to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance with the ...

A man who has experienced nightmare dates with women he met online believed that a Tokyo government-related matchmaking ...