OSAKA--The grounds of the Japan Mint in Osaka’s Kita Ward opened to the public on April 5 in an annual event to show off the ...

A Wagyu beef producer and seller here is rapidly expanding its exports to the Islamic world, attracting considerable ...

Tokyo and Washington went to great pains in 1996 to conceal the existence of a CIA office in Tokyo, saying that the news ...

A rising number of people who were abused by their parents as children are now struggling to care for them in their old age ...

Precision equipment manufacturer Shimadzu Corp. said it has created the world’s most accurate time device: a clock that won’t ...

As Japan plans additional economic measures, including a possible supplementary budget, to soften the impact of new U.S. tariffs, negotiators continue their struggle to dig out the meaning behind ...

The Osaka High Court has become the fifth high court in Japan to rule that current laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, but lawmakers remain slow to respond. The ruling, handed ...

A former TV announcer at Fuji Television Network Inc. said an unwritten requirement of her job was to quickly make jokes after being groped or sexually harassed by a VIP. “The ability of an ...

About 3,200 rice growers and dairy farmers, some driving tractors, held a protest in downtown Tokyo on March 30, demanding ...

A Japanese national may have been among hundreds of people who were inside an apartment building when it collapsed in the ...

To support women facing unwanted pregnancies, a Tokyo hospital has launched a confidential birth program, becoming the second ...

KOCHI--The Harimayabashi bridge here, considered one of the three most disappointing sightseeing spots in Japan, has reopened ...