Wearing menacing masks and straw coats, a father-son team kept a tradition alive here by making the rounds and terrifying ...

The Agency for Cultural Affairs is soliciting public comments about its plans to change romanization rules of the Japanese ...

KOBE--Sake brewers nearly put out of business by the Great Hanshin Earthquake will mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster ...

WASHINGTON--President Joe Biden has blocked the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase ...

SEOUL--South Korea's presidential guards and military troops prevented authorities from arresting impeached President Yoon ...

The estimated number of New Year’s cards delivered on Jan. 1 plunged 34 percent from a year ago--the steepest decline in more ...

Surrounded by disaster debris and with tears welling in his eyes, Keisuke Oma offered a 30-second silent prayer here on Jan.

A 62-year-old retiree from Suita, Osaka Prefecture, found a couple of surprises on his journey to express gratitude for the ...

Warmer ocean temperatures are blamed for a major bleaching event this summer that killed 61.2 percent of corals off Amami-Oshima island.

A plane with malfunctioning landing gear veered off the runway, hit a fence and caught fire Sunday at an airport in southern ...

Enclosed by mesh fences and walls sits a lone rice paddy stretching out across 1,100 square meters in Tsukuba, Ibaraki ...