The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has called for a top-level meeting with two other opposition ...

SEOUL—About 67,000 visitors took in traditional and modern culture from South Korea and Japan in an exchange festival here ...

Furusawa Onsen is a small hot spring inn with only seven guest rooms operating in the city where Hachiko, the world’s most ...

KOBE--A stone wall shields the south side of a sprawling house in a quiet residential area here while several surveillance ...

Stripping off for a sauna no longer means taking off your watch. Casio Computer Co. announced it will release a wristwatch on ...

Researchers plan to install the first Japanese radio telescope in Antarctica to study how stars are formed, enhancing the ...

A rare treat awaits the artworld in November when paintings by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall and Henri ...

When Mikiharu Tsujita launched Full Count in 1992, he did so with a singular, almost romantic ambition: to re-create the ...

MANILA--A Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored ...

KYOTO—When the phone call came at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 8, Susumu Kitagawa thought it was just another annoying telemarketer ...

OSAKA—A ceremony held on Oct. 13 gave a positive message to the world from the Osaka Kansai Expo, an event that covered 184 ...

Japanese teachers continue to work the most hours among educators in major countries and regions, according to a survey by ...