TOKYO -- It's been 13 years since Takanobu Nishimoto started an "old guy rental" service to raise the social status of ...

OTSU -- The first "democratic school" in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, opened here this month, amid a growing trend in the ...

A roughly six-meter-tall Evangelion Unit 01 was erected in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Sunday as part of a local governmen ...

Applications for deferred payment of expressway tolls following a major failure of Japan's electronic toll collection (ETC) ...

Akie Iwai shot an 8-under 64 playing alongside her twin sister Saturday for a share of the third-round lead in the JM Eagle ...

A Tokyo-based real estate company has chosen an unorthodox funding strategy by listing in New York before going public in its ...

More than 1,100 carp streamers are on display across a local river in this east Japan city during an annual spring festival, ...

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels made a port call at a China-funded naval base in southwestern Cambodia on Saturday ...

Train services on Tokyo's busy Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines resumed Sunday following track-switching work for a new route ...

Substitute Masaya Okugawa scored the 86th-minute winner as a clinical Kyoto Sanga netted with their only shots on target to ...

Pinch-hitter Chusei Mannami crushed a three-run homer in the eighth inning Saturday to spark the Nippon Ham Fighters to a 7-4 ...

A giant whale sculpture made of ocean plastic waste is being exhibited in London, but what was meant to raise awareness on ...