While her university classmates were busy studying or job hunting, Mao Nakagawa was stuck at her home in Shizuoka, struggling ...

KAMI-SHIHORO, Hokkaido—The ethereal Taushubetsugawa river bridge here, known as the "phantom bridge" because it disappears ...

Canadian convenience store chain Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has raised its offer for Seven & i Holdings Co. by ...

OSAKA—Instead of soothing employees, male company executives here on Oct. 7 were tasked with calming crying babies and other ...

Police suspect that a recent string of robberies across Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba prefectures in homes and in stores ...

A poem by Gishumon-in no Tango, a woman who is believed to have lived around the late Heian Period (794-1185) or the early ...

TAIPEI--Most Taiwanese believe China is unlikely to invade in the coming five years but do see Beijing as a serious threat to ...

Prosecutors on Oct. 8 announced that they will not appeal the Sept. 26 ruling of the Shizuoka District Court that acquitted ...

With Halloween around the corner, Tokyo administrators are exploring ways to curtail the rise in public drinking, noise and ...

The Imperial Household Agency announced on the morning of Oct. 8 that the surgery to repair the broken femur that Empress ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will speed up steps toward becoming a military superpower with ...

The auction for Shohei Ohtani’s potentially lucrative 50th home run ball has been allowed to proceed as a legal dispute over ...