A former village in central Japan that was hit by a powerful earthquake ... head of the Yamakoshi bullfighting association, which organizes the ushi no tsunotsuki event in the Yamakoshi district ...

Our Counterpoint Strategy team believes the equity bull market’s biggest risk is the reversal of the divergence between Japanese and US real yields. Japan’s real policy interest rate ...

No injuries were reported, and Mr. Ishiba was away from Tokyo in southern Japan on Saturday. The episode is the latest in a series of violent acts targeting officials in Japan, a country known as ...

What does a Japanese person recall? Doraemon, the friendly robot helper of an enormously popular eponymous anime series. So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests ...

Japan joined the World Bank in August 1952, the year after the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Starting in 1953, a number of projects were implemented in Japan with World Bank loans for the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino boxer and former three-division world champion John Riel Casimero has been slapped with a one-year ban by the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) for being overweight in ...

Known as the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan's civilization dates as far back as 30,000 years. Today, the archipelago seamlessly blends its rich history with its ultra-modern present. And while its ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

Japan’s influence on menswear over the past several decades has been profound. At this stage, in fact, it’s practically to the point of cliché. Ask a cool guy who makes his cool pants.

“You can feel that this tree is still alive.” Some 140 years ago, laborers on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, soaked a massive felled tree in the ocean for 12 month ...

Japan's general election on Sunday will be a test for new prime minister Shigeru Ishiba, who is seeking to solidify his position atop a scandal-plagued party. His gamble to call a snap election ...

Even though Japan's greenhouse gas emissions have decreased throughout the past decade, air pollution causes over 44 thousand deaths annually. Rapid industrial development, economic growth ...