Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako hosted a tea reception for African leaders and their spouses at the Imperial Palace on ...

BEIJING--The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

A historical novel published privately by a distant descendant of the Koka ninja clan has proved to be an unexpected hit ...

A minicar covered in graffiti, a weather beaten sports car looking naked without tires and an automobile that appears to have ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

Researchers are raising an alarm over recent studies showing that plastic pollution is continuing to spread across the land ...

OSAKA—Visitors stranded in the sweltering heat at the Osaka Kansai Expo venue lashed out at organizers, saying they failed to ...

OSAKA—A ceiling collapse during firefighting efforts at the Aug. 18 blaze in the downtown Dotonbori district apparently ...

While the family lived apart, Japan attacked the U.S. military base and airfields at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December 1941.

MANILA--Two Japanese men shot to death in the Philippines' capital here were targeted by a Japanese acquaintance who staged ...