Analysts say he may have a longer-term goal for his business empire: backing political parties that might cut back ...

Shinichi Ishimatsu, 65, director of St. Luke’s International Hospital in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, was the deputy chief of the ...

Tokyo Metro on Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of a subway derailment accident that killed five passengers and injured 64 others. Tokyo Metro President Akiyoshi Yamamura and others laid ...

Plans are in the works to extend two Tokyo Metro subway lines, out of its network of 13, to relieve congestion in key areas and make it easier for tourists to travel around the capital. The last ...

Victims and emergency personnel are seen in the Tsukiji district of Tokyo's Chuo Ward after the subway sarin nerve gas attack on March 20, 1995, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter.

Victims and emergency personnel are seen in the Tsukiji district of Tokyo's Chuo Ward after the subway sarin nerve gas attack on March 20, 1995, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter.

The Public Security Intelligence Agency launched a special website Friday to preserve public memory of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

TOKYO (AP) — More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the ...

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved movies about giant monsters like Godzilla, Rodan and King Kong. I watched as these fantasy ...

About 60% of victims in the March 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system had the persisting condition of ...