Police have identified 279 online casino users and dealers in Japan last year in a preliminary investigation, amid rising ...

The fifth H3 rocket was launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday.

Ahead of a ‘monkey election’ to choose the most popular monkey, half of the candidates were selected at Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in Oita Prefecture on Saturday.

Secondhand shop operators in Japan are focusing on developing channels to procure luxury and other branded goods as demand from foreign visitors surges amid the yen’s historic weakness.

Sumo wrestler Hoshoryu, second from left, tosses beans into the air for luck during this year’s setsubun ceremony in ...

A retrospective exhibition of Tatsuaki Kuroda (1904-1982), a wood and lacquer artist and living national treasure, is being ...

Companies that operate social media platforms with an enormous number of users around the world have a responsibility to ...

HIROSHIMA — Simose Art Museum, which sits on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, won this year’s Prix Versailles, a prize ...

Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, will this week unveil a major project in her campaign to highlight the importance of children’s early development.

The total number of non-Japanese passengers aboard international flights arriving at and departing from Narita Airport near ...

Fans washed the Shinkansen inspection train known as Doctor Yellow in an event held by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) at the Oi depot in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday, after the operation ...

The Trump administration aims to lower its existing detention standards to encourage more U.S. sheriffs to provide jail space ...