TOKYO--A Pokemon card game event planned for Saturday at a controversial shrine to Japan's war dead has been canceled and the ...

A teenager jostled for position amid a crowd of well-wishers in front of the Imperial Palace balcony on Jan. 2, 2014, her casual attire and flu mask obscuring her true identity.

The Immigration Services Agency from Feb. 1 will end its practice of informing lawyers that their foreign clients will be ...

When I was a teenager, I decided one day to find out what I wanted to do, rather than fret about what I could become.

The ruling coalition aims to restore Japanese military ranks used in World War II for members of the Self-Defense Forces, a plan that has drawn concern and bewilderment in the Defense Ministry.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations does not recognize the recently held elections in Myanmar, the first since the ...

TOKYO/BEIJING--China may rethink its escalating pressure campaign on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi if she delivers a ...

With campaigning for the Feb. 8 Lower House election officially kicking off on Jan. 27, an intelligence analyst is warning of ...

The Osaka gathering was thanks to the “Adult Women’s Dormitory Project,” a group working to build just that for middle-aged ...

Reasoning that “it’s just for a moment” was still too long to prevent a 3-month-old infant from tumbling off a washing machine and landing in the hospital for about two weeks with a subarachnoid ...

High in the misty riverside hills of Ashikubo, where tea bushes ripple across centuries-old terraces, a quiet revolution is brewing.

Kurd slogans, misinformation and counter-protests are featuring heavily in the mayoral election campaign in Kawaguchi, ...