OSAKA—The Osakan “obachan” are back with their first new song in six years, showing off more leopard print than fans can ...

OTARU, Hokkaido--In an apparent "rebellion" at an aquarium here, penguins on a diving platform ignored the instructions of a ...

MUKO, Kyoto Prefecture--The leafy pathway through a bamboo forest in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto is popular with tourists.

NAHA—The sight of white crabs with long, slender legs and tiny, dot-like eyes drew a yelp of astonishment from Yoshihisa ...

BEIJING--Chinese worker Liu Shengzun lost two jobs in just one month as U.S. import tariffs shot up to triple digits in April ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

Mio Ikeda stumbled across a future hit product when she discovered “firm tofu” at U.S. supermarkets in 2018 soon after she ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 training aircraft after one of ...

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

The inaugural Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremonies will be held on May 21 and 22, with hopes it will gain the prestige of the ...

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...