After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced plans for a new overnight express train connecting Tokyo with the northeastern ...

Masanori Kin ran for a seat in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly on a policy of eliminating discrimination and promoting ...

Shohei Ohtani reached 30 homers for the fifth straight season, hitting a fourth-inning drive after fouling a pitch off the ...

The central government has designated 723 municipalities in 30 prefectures for ramping up disaster mitigation measures based ...

Seeking relief from the brutal heat, I wandered into a botanical garden and found a cluster of “hangesho” (Chinese lizard's ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation ...

Japan’s average land price rose for the fourth consecutive year, with hubs for foreign tourists logging some of the sharpest ...

The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that he will be reincarnated and that his non-profit institution will have the sole ...

Authorities are considering installing security cameras in schools following a string of arrests of teachers suspected of ...

The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ...

The leaders of eight major political parties laid out differing plans to tackle rising consumer prices in a debate held on ...