In a mountainous area of Okayama Prefecture in western Japan, young Buddhist priests are struggling with shrinking ...

Tokyo stocks opened lower Monday, tracking Wall Street losses late last week amid concerns over heavy investment in ...

Japanese companies and local governments have recently disclosed a series of personal data leaks. A white-hat hacker who ...

PARIS (AP) -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday voiced the public's "anger" and "shame" over rioting and looting ...

With the help of Japan, home to legendary players Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani, baseball has gradually gained a foothold ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent a monetary offering to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Monday, a senior ruling ...

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached an eighth province in the country's north, authorities said on Sunday as the spread ...

By Maki Saito The Last Words of a Samurai The Charge The late-afternoon sun filled the hospital room and fell gently across ...

Lawyer Atsumi Harasawa, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and some other parties, is set to win the Yokohama mayoral e ...

Maiwai is a type of festive clothing traditionally worn by fishermen in Japan. It is believed to have originated along the ...

Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, ...

Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, traveled to Tottori Prefecture in western Japan on ...