Just after 10:15 p.m. in late November, three young women were wandering around a cul-de-sac in a sleepy residential area ...

Glance around the grounds and listen to discover that not only devout followers and tourists congregate at shrines and ...

BEIJING/KATHMANDU--A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government will subsidize the cost of “painless delivery,” the use of an epidural or other anesthetics ...

Taiwan began three days of military drills on Tuesday as concerns rose over potential cuts to the defense budget due to ...

Tesla supplier Panasonic Energy plans to eliminate its supply-chain dependence on China for electric vehicle batteries made ...

AOMORI—Heavy snow has blanketed the northernmost prefecture on the main island of Honshu, disrupting public transportation ...

Masahisa Takemi, 50, is the adviser of the track and field club at the Tokyo Metropolitan Chuo School for the Deaf in Tokyo's ...

Stray dogs, now a rare sight in urban areas, are becoming a growing concern in rural regions as there have been many reports ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has announced plans to open a prototype smart city at the foot of Mount Fuji as early as this fall.

BANGKOK--China has slammed a decision by the U.S. Treasury to sanction a Beijing-based cybersecurity company for its alleged ...

NAGOYA--The operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line plans to install next-generation, thin solar cells on noise barriers ...