KYOTO—Kodaiji temple in Higashiyama Ward here held a test run of an out of this world light show on Oct. 23 ahead of its ...

The temperature hit 25.1 degrees in central Tokyo on Oct. 24, marking the 153rd day--and perhaps the last--of the year when ...

The United States, South Korea, Britain and Ukraine say North Korea has sent troops to Russia for possible deployment in ...

Officials in Hong Kong said Wednesday they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, ...

While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the QR Code, the ubiquitous scanning tag developed by a Japanese engineer that is ...

A Japanese Paralympic judoka on Aug. 26 was hit by a self-driving vehicle inside the athletes’ village, suffering injuries ...

Japan’s political parties are promising to raise the minimum wage, a step that may win votes in Sunday’s general election but ...

A portion of Japan’s foreign aid has failed to achieve its intended goals, with utilization rates falling significantly short ...

At least 354 bridges on emergency transportation routes around Japan are at risk of collapsing during a major earthquake, ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed indignation over “biased” media reports on how his Liberal Democratic Party has ...

Although the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has withheld official endorsements from scandal-hit politicians in the Lower ...