Mourners gathered at the site in Nara where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot three years ago on July 8 to ...

Emperor Naruhito, who has made water-related research his life’s work, visited facilities that supply water for Mongolia’s ...

Opting for a lie-in as he marked his 41st birthday, Akihiro Shima took stock of his life. The musician didn’t have too many ...

A popular daytrip from central Tokyo, Mount Takaosan at 599 meters high is seemingly a safe and casual hike compared to ...

Some atomic nuclei are not shaped like rugby balls, as a longstanding theory suggests, but are instead somewhat flattened, ...

An overwhelming percentage of opposition candidates in the Upper House election support a “total ban” on corporate and group donations, but the rate was zero for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a ...

KYOTO—A group of geisha and their “maiko” apprentices gathered at Yasakajinja shrine here on July 3 for a traditional ritual ...

SEOUL--An unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas and is in South ...

NAHA—In a rare and significant move, senior officials from the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa Prefecture formally ...

NATO has set a new goal for member nations regarding defense spending, including related expenses, by raising the objective ...

Vertical solar panels, while now a rare sight on farmland in Japan, in this case a rice paddy, look set to transform the ...

KOBE—A Chinese woman is accused of illegally driving tourists from her home country to areas around the Kansai region for about two years without a taxi license.