More than 800 million adults have diabetes worldwide — almost twice as many as previous estimates have suggested — and more ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.

while its elderly population is growing A Japanese nappy maker has announced that it will stop producing diapers for babies ...

Japan is seeing a record boom in tourism, but one recent visitor travelled more than the circumference of the earth to get ...

Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September quarter as consumer spending held up ...

Hourglass-shaped sex toys casually glide along a conveyor belt through an airy new store in Tokyo, the latest attempt by ...

Naoki Hyakuta, the leader of Japan’s Conservative Party, stirred controversy on Friday by suggesting that women should be ...