Japan's education ministry has urged that school trips be planned for the off-season due to a recent labor shortage in transportation and accommodations amid a boom in inbound tourism, according to ...

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Israel Folau and his former fellow Wallaby and current club teammate Samu Kerevi are off to a poor start in Japanese club ...

We’re standing outside the Tokyo Prince Hotel, beneath the iconic Tokyo Tower that is bathed in a deep orange glow. It’s ...

TOKYO -- Lifestyle hotels, which offer more than just a place to sleep, are popping up all over the Tokyo metropolitan area. As the country welcomes more domestic and international travelers and new ...

Just when you thought motorcycles couldn’t get any wilder, Yamaha has dropped the sci-fi-inspired Y/AI prototype. It’s built ...

Any increases on New Year's Day and Mondays may also be due to the "broken-promise effect theory," the authors wrote, which posits that people may postpone suicide attempts until after the holidays, ...

In the last four months, the chess board became India's happy hunting ground with both the men's and women's teams knocking ...

The annual tournament kicked off on Saturday, with young players dreaming of playing in the final in front of tens of ...

Japan's national high school football tournament is thriving after more than 100 years, attracting huge crowds, millions ...

Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” has died. She was 73.

Around 80 percent of female inmates in Japan last year were convicted on charges of theft or violating drug laws, with the ...