TOKYO -- Sales of plush toys of "Pipo-kun," Tokyo police's beloved mascot, are expected to resume next April following a ...

Japan stopped issuing dedicated health insurance cards on Dec. 2 as the function is being incorporated into the ...

Japan's Ryosuke Nishida knocked out Thailand's Anuchai Donsua in the seventh round Sunday to win the first defense of his IBF ...

Sake brewer Asahi Shuzo Co., known for its Dassai brand, announced on Dec. 11 that it will attempt to create sake in space ...

With a surge in children refusing to go to school in Japan in recent years, places of respite are being set up across the ...

A 15-year-old junior high school student has died after she and a male classmate were stabbed Saturday while waiting in line ...

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"Koji" mold, which is key to sake production and is called "the mold of the nation," has been developed in Japan since ...

The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Cabinet dropped by 3.5 percentage points from last month to ...

Former Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa conducts the orchestra during a rehearsal of Berlioz's ...

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