Japanese customs authorities blocked a record 19,568 shipments suspected of infringing intellectual property rights in the ...

A 52-year-old restaurant operator was sentenced to 17 years in prison on September 4 for killing his former girlfriend by ...

Applications for hotel business licenses are rising sharply in Osaka as property owners seek an alternative way to operate ...

The autumn red snow crab season has opened on the Sea of Japan coast, with the first auction at Kasumi Fishing Port in Kami, ...

Young people recruited into illegal "dark part-time jobs" through social media and friends are increasingly becoming involved ...

Asahi Kasei has grown from its roots in Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, into a global conglomerate with annual sales exceeding ...

Tokyo police are investigating the possibility of a serial arson spree after six suspicious fires were reported within about ...

To understand why expectations for Berlin are so high, it helps to look back four years. The World Cup 2022 in Sydney became ...

Tokyo stocks rebounded on September 4, with the Nikkei 225 closing at 65,020.94, up 806.46 points, or 1.26%, as buying ...

NAHA - Typhoon No. 24 is forecast to follow an unusual looping path near Okinawa and south of Japan before weakening into a tropical depression, while the warm, moist air it carries is intensifying ...

A late former professor at Asahikawa Medical University has won the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for scientifically examining ...

Osaka City plans to tighten regulations on private lodging businesses, or minpaku, by generally prohibiting new operations in ...