Japan, the United States and Europe are increasingly pouring enormous subsidies into their own industries and stepping up ...

Amid an increasing number of foreign residents in this southwest Japan city, the local fire department has held a life-saving ...

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday, with the Nikkei stock index briefly up over 2 percent, lifted by artificial intelligence- and ...

Hokkaido University's harassment prevention office determined in July that actions taken by a professors' council toward ...

A Japanese court ruled Wednesday in an AI cloning case that voice is protected as a publicity right, similar to the right of ...

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday rejected South Korean findings that North Korea likely ...

An Asian university placed higher than continental Europe's leading institution for the first time in the latest annual ...

Former Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka formally announced his candidacy on Sept. 29 for the Oct. 18 rerun mayoral election, ...

One person died and another was left wounded after they were found collapsed on streets in different wards of the western ...

On September 27, the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, where yokozuna ...

The surviving head of a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary destroyed in the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki is expected to be ...

At a time when the fight for gender equality is facing a backlash, pressure is mounting for the next leader of the United ...