An extensive system failure across central Japan that knocked out electronic toll collection (ETC) booths on major ...

OSAKA—Potentially explosive methane gas was detected at the Osaka Expo venue here on April 6, one week before the event’s ...

Technology developed to track license plates in paid parking lots without tire-locking mechanisms is attracting interest from police departments across Japan.

Ten years after the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line opened its Nagano-Kanazawa extension, sightseeing spots along the line are ...

A medical transport helicopter carrying a patient fell into the sea in southwestern Japan Sunday, leaving three of the six people aboard dead, the Japan Coast Guard said.

FRANKFURT--Global stock markets extended a severe plunge Monday, fueled by fears that U.S. tariffs would lead to a global ...

Tokyo and Washington went to great pains in 1996 to conceal the existence of a CIA office in Tokyo, saying that the news ...

The suicide of a manager at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Oita Prefecture who worked for six straight months without taking ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...

South Korean makeup and skincare brands may have dethroned France as Japan’s top cosmetics importer for the first time in ...

OSAKA--The grounds of the Japan Mint in Osaka’s Kita Ward opened to the public on April 5 in an annual event to show off the ...

The Yuki-Hime “smart sea bus” made only one blunder during a test cruise when it needlessly slowed down and made a turn.