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

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

Joseph Nye, an international political scientist who was deeply involved in U.S. policy toward Japan, died on May 6. He was ...

Japanese video-game maker Nintendo on Thursday reported a 43% decline in profit for the fiscal year through March, but ...

At least 1,518 executions were carried out worldwide in 2024, up 32 percent from the year before, according to Amnesty ...

Nearly 600,000 people in de facto marriages might officially wed if they were legally allowed to use separate family names, a ...

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

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

NAGOYA--A colossal tapestry from France depicting a scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece “Spirited Away” is on ...

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

The five-member male idol group Arashi announced on May 6 that it will end activities with a concert tour to be held next ...

German author Erich Kastner (1899-1974), whose works included children’s literature, secretly kept a diary while resisting ...