GIFU--A lottery ticket that costs 500,000 yen ($3,450) will allow up to 20 people to view a fireworks display from the tower ...

At a drinking party, a resident of this northeastern town showed a photo of a Buddhist scroll, on a smartphone screen, to a ...

Korean school students in Japan who were excluded from a program to make high school education free from fiscal 2025 are ...

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

WASHINGTON--OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol ...

NAGASAKI—In a break from last year's snubs, the city government here will invite Russia, Belarus and Israel to the annual ...

Unauthorized stock market trades using hijacked brokerage accounts have soared in recent weeks, surpassing 304.9 billion yen ...

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

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

In early summer 1877, the 10th year of the Meiji Era (1868–1912), a passenger ship from San Francisco arrived at Yokohama ...

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

Fewer Japanese believe their society is rooted in democracy compared with 10 years ago, a survey by The Asahi Shimbun shows.