A volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, erupted early Sunday morning, sending a plume of ash and ...

South Korea and Japan may scrap plans to hold a joint maritime search and rescue drill scheduled for later this month, ...

The number of women's toilets installed at Japan's train stations is only about 60% the total of men's, according to sample ...

An executive committee that spent over a decade advocating for war-renouncing Article 9 of Japan's Constitution to be ...

Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 1.8 percent in the July-September period, marking the first contraction in six ...

Taiki Ishikami plated three runs while Taisei Ota gave up a ninth-inning run as Japan tied 7-7 with South Korea on Sunday in ...

A Cambodia-based Chinese firm on a U.S. sanctions list for its involvement in international fraud and human trafficking has ...

OSAKA -- "I shouldn't have agreed so easily," a man said as he expressed regret about his owner contracts with major Japanese convenience store chain Ministop after operating six stores in Osaka ...

The Chinese government on Sunday urged its citizens to carefully reconsider studying in Japan, citing what it described as an ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nearly half of full-time workers in their 20s in Japan engage in "oshi-katsu" activities in support of their ...

A woman in her 40s was stabbed by a man in central Tokyo's Akasaka district on Sunday, police said, adding that the suspected ...

By Damian Flanagan The other day I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting presentation about antique books by an ...