Nearly 60 percent of households in Japan struggled last year to make ends meet, a survey by the welfare ministry showed.

KYOTO—A group of geisha and their “maiko” apprentices gathered at Yasakajinja shrine here on July 3 for a traditional ritual ...

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TSU--For the time being, the Bank of Japan will hold off on interest rate hikes while it closely monitors developments in the ...

MANILA--Asian shares were mixed Friday after U.S. stocks climbed further into record heights as the clock ticks on President Donald Trump’s July 9 tariff deadline.

KITAKAMI, Iwate Prefecture―An 81-year-old woman was killed in a suspected bear attack in her living room here on July 4, according to police.

SEOUL--An unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas and is in South ...

KOBE—A Chinese woman is accused of illegally driving tourists from her home country to areas around the Kansai region for about two years without a taxi license.

Some atomic nuclei are not shaped like rugby balls, as a longstanding theory suggests, but are instead somewhat flattened, ...

A popular daytrip from central Tokyo, Mount Takaosan at 599 meters high is seemingly a safe and casual hike compared to ...

LONDON—Akira Otani’s gangland thriller centered around two women is the first Japanese work to win the translation division ...

Emperor Naruhito hopes that his visit to Mongolia to commemorate Japanese wartime detainees who died there under harsh ...