TAKAMATSU -- A Ukrainian woman working in Japan after leaving her war-torn homeland recounted her experience walking the Buddhist pilgrimage routes in Shikoku while reminiscing about her family ...

US Marine sentenced to 7 years in prison for sexual assault in Japan The sexual assault case is the latest to strain relations between residents of Japan's Okinawa Islands and U.S. servicemembers.

Japan's Diet on Friday ratified a key defense pact allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint drills with Filipino troops in the Philippines, Manila's top envoy to Tokyo said. "We welcome ...

The number of newborns in Japan is decreasing faster than projected, with the number of annual births falling to another record low last year, according to government data released Wednesday.. The ...

Why Japan is so in love with Aussie coffee (and vice versa) Australian coffee brands have become the go-to for many of Tokyo’s coolest cafes.

Wako, Saitama Pref. – Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and ...

Efforts to push the minimum wage up by about 40% in just a few years could wreck a lot of smaller companies in Japan. And that just may be the point of the exercise. “I think the significance of ...

The former Nebraska guard and Japan native is returning to his home country to play in the B.League, which is run by the Japan Professional Basketball League. Tominaga signed with Levanga Hokkaido ...

The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission.

The lander started its descent after 3 a.m. on Friday, Japan time. It was scheduled to touch down on a crater-less area in the moon's northern hemisphere at 4:17.