When Masaya Kobayashi moved to Tokyo after graduating from a college in Kanazawa, he thought about renting an apartment at ...

Rice shortages are pushing food banks to the brink of closure and threatening to hurt the most needy in society.

OSAKA--Each day during the six-month run of the Osaka Kansai Expo, Daisaku Yoshimura plans to put on a "kamishibai" picture ...

China’s dream to establish a Sinocentric order in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific poses a grave security threat to the United ...

WASHINGTON--Japan and the United States failed to find common ground in their fifth round of talks on Washington’s high ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

Two diametrically opposed court rulings have been handed down concerning accountability for the 2011 nuclear disaster. How ...

Yumiko Shiragaki, a 65-year-old Fukuoka resident, spoke haltingly about losing her husband to an illness about 30 years ago.

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo's Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...

WASHINGTON--The U.S. declined to label China a currency manipulator in a new Treasury report released Thursday but accuses ...

Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong on Friday was charged with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger ...

The government announced the appointment of Masami Okino to the Supreme Court, making her an unprecedented fourth female ...