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

Operations on sections of Tokyo’s Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines will be suspended on April 19 and 20 due to scheduled work ...

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

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

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

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

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

Tomy Co. is marking the 50th anniversary of its beloved Pop-Up-Pirate toy with a seventh version of the game that switches up ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced on April 17 that it had collected a sample of melted nuclear fuel from the No. 2 reactor ...

“Murphy’s Law” by U.S. writer Arthur Bloch contains a line to the effect, “Whatever the field, the longer a contributor to ...

HAMAMATSU—Actress Ryoko Hirosue, who is accused of injuring a nurse by kicking and scratching her at a hospital, was released ...

Unqualified sales employees of a U.S.-affiliated medical device manufacturer operated X-ray machines during surgeries in ...