SoftBank Corp. is offering an artificial intelligence-powered chat service called Mentari to help teachers quickly identify children with possible mental health issues. Mentari eases the burden of ...

KYOTO—All 84 branches of Kyoto Shinkin Bank (Kyoshin) may technically close at noon, but the credit union, based in the city’s Shimogyo Ward, is arguably even more committed to its community than ...

KANAZAWA—Soaring gold prices and decreasing demand threaten to end the rich history of Japan’s last remaining site that produces the glittering veneer of religious sites, Buddhist altars and other ...

Japan’s public libraries are quietly undergoing a digital transformation. In just six years, the number of local governments ...

Instead of traditional outdoor activities and cookouts around the campfire at night, children at a specialized “study camp” set up near Mount Fuji were on a different mission.

I t is said very few professionals in the world have mastered the art to the degree of teasing out a higher caliber of notes and work ...

Christa Pike was in critical condition Thursday and receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, her lawyers said, a day after a failed attempt to execute her pushed Tennessee’s governor to halt further ...

BARCELONA—A former board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar has been detained in Spain on charges of financial impropriety that he and others maintain were fabricated by the current ...

The former cybercrime division manager of the National Police Agency will not be indicted for alleged offenses such as ...

Asian shares mostly rose in Thursday trading amid investor interest in technology-related issues, despite ongoing worries about the war in Iran.

Visibility and internal acceptance guided volleyball player Rui Takahashi’s decision to publicly come out as gay, a move ...

A city here became the fifth municipality and the only one on the main Honshu island to embark on the selection process for ...