The five-member male idol group Arashi announced on May 6 that it will end activities with a concert tour to be held next ...

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

NARUTO, Tokushima Prefecture–The famed whirlpools of the Naruto Strait are swirling at their seasonal peak, the natural ...

NAGOYA--A colossal tapestry from France depicting a scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece “Spirited Away” is on ...

Kagoshima finally dethroning the nation's top tea-growing prefecture sent shock waves through local producers.

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

The town of Futaba, cohost to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, was entirely evacuated after the Great East ...

The prospect of snatching up one of Japan’s abandoned homes is a well-trod exercise in “what if,” but reviving a dilapidated ...

AKITA—An elderly man died on May 2 after being found collapsed on the ground near a broken blade from a wind turbine here, ...

The Vietnam, India and Brunei pavilions have officially opened at the Osaka Kansai Expo, more than two weeks later than those ...

WASHINGTON/BEIJING--U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer will meet China’s ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.