WASHINGTON--Japan and the United States failed to find common ground in their fifth round of talks on Washington’s high ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

Yumiko Shiragaki, a 65-year-old Fukuoka resident, spoke haltingly about losing her husband to an illness about 30 years ago.

The government announced the appointment of Masami Okino to the Supreme Court, making her an unprecedented fourth female ...

Two diametrically opposed court rulings have been handed down concerning accountability for the 2011 nuclear disaster. How ...

WASHINGTON--The U.S. declined to label China a currency manipulator in a new Treasury report released Thursday but accuses ...

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo's Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...

Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong on Friday was charged with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger ...

Nintendo’s Switch 2 launched on Thursday and is widely expected to be in short supply globally amid pent-up demand for the ...

As a practitioner of the traditional Japanese art of “rakugo” comic storytelling, Ramune goes out of her way to make people ...

In the battle for financial survival, some sumo stables are inviting overseas groups of tourists to watch their morning ...

Some 18,121 people with dementia were reported missing in 2024, down 918 from the previous year, and 491 have been found dead ...