The storm, which the government said could be the strongest to hit Tokyo, Japan since 1958. It brought record-breaking rainfall in many areas, including the popular...
There have also been reports of bad behavior, including tourists chasing geisha's and their apprentices with cameras in the streets of Kyodo.
Japan has raised defense spending by a tenth over the past seven years to counter military advances by China and Pyongyang. Including defenses against North Korean...
TOKYO – A knife-wielding psychopath carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you!” brutally attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a...
TOKYO – Faced with a shrinking workforce, Japan has made it easier for migrant workers to get a visa. Conservative critics are concerned about the impact...
TOKYO – A 116-year-old Japanese woman who loves playing the board game Othello was honored Saturday as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records....
TOKYO – The “World’s Oldest Man” Masazo Nonaka, who was born just two years after the Wright brothers launched humanity’s first powered flight, died on...
TOKYO – Japan has decided to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission in a bid to resume commercial whaling for the first time in about...
TOKYO – Japan on Tuesday approved plans to convert two ships into aircraft carriers –the nation’s first since World War II — as it tries...
TOKYO – Japan is apparently considering tripling its original F-35 order “to respond to China in the Pacific,” a senior defense official in the Japanese...
TOKYO – A powerful typhoon is bearing down on the Japanese archipelago after passing near Okinawa on Saturday, with forecasters warning of strong winds, high waves...
Thailand and Japan have swapped their top positions as the countries Chinese travellers felt comfortable visiting in the latest survey by Hotels.com. The survey released...
YANGON – While the Japanese foreign minister and State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi discussed Rakhine’s development in Naypyitaw last week, a Chinese Communist...
TOKYO – Japan on Thursday executed six more members of the cult behind the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, local media...
KURASHIKI – Japan risks more severe weather and must find ways to alleviate disasters, a government spokesman said on Thursday, as intense heat and water...
KURASHIKI, Japan – Rescue workers carried out home-to-home searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides...
HIROSHIMA, Japan – Searches continued Sunday night for victims of heavy rainfall that hammered southern Japan for the third straight day, as the government put...
TOKYO – At least 50 people were missing and four in critical condition as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan,...
TOKYO – A Hello Kitty-themed “shinkansen” bullet train has debuted in Japan. Adorned with the cartoon icon inside and out, it’s a dream ride for...
TOKYO – Japan will next week pick a U.S.-made advanced radar for its multi-billion-dollar missile defense system, an upgrade that could help ease trade friction...
