Thousands of daruma dolls, symbols of good luck and perseverance, were given a fiery ceremonial send-off at a Zen Buddhist ...

Ichiro Suzuki, whose outstanding play in Japanese baseball led him to international stardom in the major leagues, was ...

The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare ...

He wears a black bodysuit and a white mask, speaks in an electronically altered squeaky voice and makes creepiness his ...

Tokyo police on Jan. 16 arrested seven men, including dentists, on suspicion of defrauding Nagoya city of dental fees through ...

Watching a news conference held by Shinji Ishimaru on Jan. 15 in Tokyo, I thought he definitely came across like an ...

SHANGHAI--Users of the Chinese social media app RedNote welcomed “TikTok refugees” from the United States with selfies and ...

A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...

Toyota Motor unit Hino Motors has agreed a $1.6 billion settlement with U.S. agencies and will plead guilty over excess ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency urged Kyushu residents to be wary of aftershocks from the strong Jan. 13 earthquake but said ...

AKITA--A single-department college nestled in a fairly remote forest in this northern prefecture has become a leading hunting ...