Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako hosted a tea reception for African leaders and their spouses at the Imperial Palace on ...

BEIJING--The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

Researchers are raising an alarm over recent studies showing that plastic pollution is continuing to spread across the land ...

A minicar covered in graffiti, a weather beaten sports car looking naked without tires and an automobile that appears to have ...

A historical novel published privately by a distant descendant of the Koka ninja clan has proved to be an unexpected hit ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

McDonald’s Japan canceled a Happy Meal promotion featuring “One Piece” trading cards after a “Pokemon” card giveaway led to ...

OSAKA—A ceiling collapse during firefighting efforts at the Aug. 18 blaze in the downtown Dotonbori district apparently ...

OSAKA—Visitors stranded in the sweltering heat at the Osaka Kansai Expo venue lashed out at organizers, saying they failed to ...

Melted fuel debris retrieved from a crippled reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was found to be more brittle ...