Japan’s rapidly-aging society will see a quarter of its breadwinners turn 75 or older by 2040, the Nikkei daily has reported, citing a study from ...

Voters headed to polls Sunday in Lower House by-elections in Okinawa and Osaka, as well as for numerous races being held simultaneously to pick mayors ...

Thai police last month raided a residence in Pattaya where an alleged telephone swindling operation was taking place. They discovered 15 Japanese nationals suspected of ...

The U.S. Air Force is considering building an Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) tasked with drawing up and implementing military operations at Yokota base ...

There’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything — and you’re probably doing it wrong.All the activities of life — big and ...

Video games usually have some level of conflict or pressure — solve this puzzle, blow up this machine, defeat this monster and so forth. That’s ...

The anonymous 14th-century chronicle "Masukagami" ("The Clear Mirror," translated by George Perkins), dramatically details the trials and errors of Emperor Go-Daigo, the 96th emperor of ...

A Japanese baby, who weighed just 258 grams (9.1 ounces) when he was born in October and is believed to be the smallest boy to ...

No brake marks have been detected on the road in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district where a car crash killed two people and injured eight others Friday, ...

Former Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka has died of cancer, people close to him said Saturday. He was 79.A native of Kagoshima, Yasuoka served as justice ...

The J-Village national soccer training center in Fukushima Prefecture resumed full operation Saturday, eight years after it was converted into an operational base to cope ...

History shows cities that flourish due to maritime trade have a reputation for some of the world’s most colorful, complex, and corrupt local politics. That ...

A blind Japanese sailor on Saturday successfully completed a near two-month, nonstop voyage from San Diego to Fukushima Prefecture, making him the first to make ...

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko returned to Tokyo on Friday after a three-day trip to Mie Prefecture for ceremonies at the Grand Shrines of Ise, ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at the end of a meeting of all Cabinet ministers on April 1 that he wanted Reiwa to be the ...

The Miyagi Prefectural Police have said that a corpse discovered in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been identified as ...

Japan will go ahead with its F-35A fighter purchases from the United States as planned despite a recent crash involving one of the aircraft, Defense ...

The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and the United States confirmed on Friday for the first time that Article 5 of the two countries’ ...

A piece of street art discovered in January that some attribute to Banksy is to be shown at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building starting next ...

The world’s smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Nagano Prefecture weighing as much as a large apple, is now ready for the ...