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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Last year, when Lauren Haydel began her first sober holiday season, she wondered how difficult it would be to avoid alcohol ...

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

NAGASAKI -- "Impacts may be small, but not powerless": ...

At least 11 people have died after Cyclone Chido caused devastating damage in the French territory of Mayotte in the I ...