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

The mayor of a city in Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, said Wednesday it will accept a preliminary survey that the industry ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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