A cherry blossom viewing party held here on March 30 was not a typical “hanami” event, given its theme of “avoiding death.” ...

Monks and worshippers spent the night of April 18 chanting sutras to honor the founder of Chion-in temple in Kyoto’s ...

Cartographer Ino Tadataka (1745-1818) was 55 years old when he set out on his first surveying trip in 1800 to chart the coast ...

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

SHANGHAI--A Chinese man who stabbed to death a Chinese female bus attendant and injured a Japanese mother and her child at a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump specifically demanded Tokyo pay more for stationing American troops in Japan, increase sales of U ...

The United States and Japan need to work together to align their defense forces in the face of an increasingly assertive ...

Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with the U.S., the Finance Ministry ...

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission will soon issue warnings to 15 luxury hotels in Tokyo over their cartel-like behavior that ...

KYOTO—Researchers have safely transplanted nerve cells generated from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the brains of ...

Lacking support from voters and the opposition bloc, the government and ruling coalition parties have abandoned plans to ...