What stood out for Japan was the low level of satisfaction with quality of life. Only 13% of Japanese pollees answered that ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya plans to deliver a speech at a preparatory session for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation ...

The top executive of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, said Thursday that U.S. President Donald ...

The Nikkei stock index tumbled over 5 percent early Friday after Wall Street plunged overnight on concern about a widening ...

Sunset over Lake Shinji is seen through the branches of blooming cherry trees at Shirakata Park in the western Japan city of ...

A fossilized tooth of a cartilaginous fish found in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido in 2013 is of a newly discovered ...

The history of the former Soma family residence -- a manor built in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in 1908 that was the private ...

Koki Kitayama hurled six innings of two-hit ball while striking out eight as the Nippon Ham Fighters pounded the Rakuten ...

CESKE BUDEJOVICE, Czech Republic (Kyodo) -- Japan cruised to a 5-2 opening win over Norway in Group B at the women's ice ...

An unreleased song by the late Taiwanese pop singer Teresa Teng, who took East Asia by storm from the 1970s to 1990s, has ...

President Donald Trump's 10% blanket import tariffs have come into effect The U.S. administration had initially hit Japan ...

According to operator West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), this marks the first time the franchise's characters have appeared on ...