TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks ended higher Thursday, as the end of the prolonged...
Police in Japan can from Thursday use rifles to shoot bears after strict gun law...
Asian shares mostly gained on Thursday after U.S. stocks settled near their reco...
The Japanese government raised its gasoline subsidy by 5 yen to 15 yen per liter...
Curbing warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels — the goal o...
Finding love in rural Japan is not impossible. Despite living in one of the coun...
In the foothills of Japan’s Northern Alps, people are chasing monkeys. Wearing b...
Ikebukuro Station is one of Tokyo’s busiest rail hubs, with more than 2.5 millio...
The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are looking to triple the...
A railway company employee, aspiring to be a train driver, maneuvered trains wit...
The NBA's all-time leading scorer has missed the Los Angeles Lakers' first 11 ga...
The former officer is a board member of a group based in the city that works wit...
Officials warn some operations may take a week or more to fully resume after the...
Tatsuya Nakadai worked with nearly every major Japanese director of the postwar ...
With heart and humor, veteran director Yoji Yamada’s 91st film may be his most m...
Michihito Fujii’s yakuza drama is determinedly old-fashioned — and not in a good...
