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 ...

SoftBank Corp. is offering an artificial intelligence-powered chat service called Mentari to help teachers quickly identify ...

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 ...

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

SEOUL—South Korea’s spy agency said Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ’s recent revelation of a ...

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 ...

Aiming to strengthen ties with Mongolia, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi agreed to a yen loan worth about 158 billion yen ($1 ...

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

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Dodgers expect a healthier Shohei Ohtani at the top of their lineup for the postseason. The ...