Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

KYOTO--Geisha scattered roasted soybeans to exorcise “evil spirits” and bring good fortune in the year ahead during a ...

Walking with an Akita Inu dog,” a fitness program to help people enjoy nature through trail walking, is proving popular here.

Neighboring municipalities have grown irate over a surprise plan to build an interim storage facility here for spent nuclear ...

If you are afraid of heights, please bear with it for a little while,” the train driver called out while blowing shimmering ...

Staff in the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet at the airport here brace themselves for a stampede every time an Air Koryo flight ...

Rescue workers completed building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach a truck driver trapped for days inside a sinkhole ...

The chairman and president of Fuji Television Network Inc. will resign over the reported sexual misconduct scandal involving ...

Even though the Tokaido Shinkansen boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated high-speed rail technologies, it has made ...

A former correctional officer offered a rare first-hand account of the execution of a death row inmate he participated in ...

A cherry blossom festival held here as a harbinger of early spring in the Izu Peninsula is now under way, but ironically not many flowers are open due to cold weather.

MANILA--Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered on Friday to remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if ...