For a Yokohama-based company falsely accused of exporting equipment that could be used to make biological weapons, the ...

Asian shares were trading mixed early Thursday after Wall Street’s rally stalled as investors appeared not to react much to ...

Mysterious geometric patterns dubbed “underwater crop circles” are appearing on the seafloor as the spawning season of a local pufferfish begins off the southern coast of Amami-Oshima island.

Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signaling he is ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to ...

CHIBA—A prefectural commission plans to restrict crabbing for “gazami” crabs along the coast of Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, ...

China slumped out of World Cup contention before Uzbekistan and Jordan qualified for the first time. In the meantime, South ...

From the lakeside city of Otsu to Kyoto, I walked a roughly 12-kilometer stretch of the Biwako Sosui—a historic manmade ...

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo's Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

SAKAI, Osaka Prefecture--City authorities gave the go-ahead for trial balloon rides at ancient burial grounds here from early ...

Chinese fighter jets flew unusually close to Japanese military patrol planes over the weekend as two Chinese aircraft ...