Japan’s top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, could travel to Washington as soon as next week for a third round of trade ...

TOKUSHIMA—To alleviate a nationwide driver shortage, a major driving school operator here is opening a road to Vietnam to ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...

Waymo LLC, which operates fully autonomous, driverless taxis in the United States, has announced that it would start ...

In early summer 1877, the 10th year of the Meiji Era (1868–1912), a passenger ship from San Francisco arrived at Yokohama ...

The five-member male idol group Arashi announced on May 6 that it will end activities with a concert tour to be held next ...

German author Erich Kastner (1899-1974), whose works included children’s literature, secretly kept a diary while resisting ...

NAHA--A U.S. military helicopter flying over northern Okinawa Prefecture accidentally dropped a bag containing a flammable ...

It’s a cold, wet morning and frigid air is seeping through the open doors of a college gymnasium in Tokyo. But that doesn’t ...