The unidentified Japanese man, with a bleeding forehead, reportedly pulled out a knife and attacked a staff member at a train ...

Storyline: The Japanese government is considering an early release of its rice reserves to address continuous price surges, ...

The land of the rising sun is an excellent child-friendly destination, as long as you do your homework first. Here are 15 ...

Japan's Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court's acquittal of a man charged with committing a hit-and-run that resulted in the death of a middle school student in 2015, citing his failure to ...

THESE must be two of the most delicious reviews I have ever written: one is a documentary called The God of Ramen and the other is a full-length feature film The Bread of Happiness. The docu, for all ...

The US dollar hit a two-month low against the Japanese yen into the upper-JPY 151 range on Thursday in Tokyo after the Bank o ...

The Bank of Japan must raise short-term interest rates to at least 1% by the second half of fiscal 2025 to contain inflation ...

The Bank of Japan should raise its policy interest rate, currently at 0.5 percent, to at least around 1 percent in the latter ...

London City Lionesses' Saki Kumagai and Manchester City's Yui Hasegawa were named Wednesday among the 23 members of the ...

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea announces its newest culinary addition, KOMO, where masterful Japanese cuisine comes alive in a setting that captures Maui’s legendary glow. The intimate 50-seat ...

A bureau chief who oversaw police investigations into Aum Shinrikyo said he feels responsible for the “indecision” on a crackdown that allowed the cult to commit its deadly gas attack in Tokyo in 1995 ...

TOKYO >> Hotels and restaurants in the popular Hakuba ski resort village are packed to capacity amid a surge in international tourists on the slopes, and visitors to the village are expected to grow ...