An increasing number of wealthy buyers in Asia have shown an interest in nishikigoi Japanese colored carp, pushing up the market for the luxury ornamental ...

The head of a Tokyo foster home was stabbed to death Monday by a man who said he used to live there and wanted revenge, ...

A 29-year-old man who has admitted to poisoning cats with poison in Kanagawa Prefecture last November said he was driven by his long-standing hatred of ...

Emperor Akihito will be called “emperor emeritus” and Empress Michiko “empress emerita” following his abdication in April, the Imperial Household Agency said.Their Japanese titles to ...

The crew members of a Japanese crab fishing boat detained by Russian authorities in late January are likely to be released, along with their vessel, ...

Bhutanese exchange students are being extorted by overseas employment agencies and threatened into silence, according to representatives who spoke to the press Monday on behalf ...

A northeastern farming village that saw demand for its produce plunge after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis has found a way to reinvigorate its image ...

Visitors at a Parisian museum were treated to Japanese tea ceremonies and a talk on the history of the practice Sunday by members of the ...

A student at Nagoya University’s Graduate School of Information Science has developed an online platform for music fans that keeps them update on classical and ...

Japan has decided to nominate traditional architectural craftsmanship used in timber-framed structures for addition to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in the fall of 2020, ...

A global coalition set up to fight emerging epidemics has struck a $31 million deal with scientists at the University of Tokyo to speed up ...

A prefecture-wide referendum in Okinawa on Sunday demonstrated overwhelming opposition, at least among those who voted, to relocating U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from ...

In the latest jab at perennial foe Japan, Pyongyang has blasted Tokyo over its alleged “nuclear weaponization” just days ahead of a second summit between ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has questioned why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is confident of resolving the long-standing territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over ...

A power failure occurred between JR Chuo Line’s Kanda and Yotsuya stations in Tokyo on Monday morning, forcing trains to halt operations during rush hour.East ...

North Korea’s Olympic committee has been unable to receive information required for the country’s participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to a network problem, ...

About 6 million years ago in Africa there was an ape species that would change the world. We don't know much about that animal, but ...