A volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, erupted early Sunday morning, sending a plume of ash and ...

South Korea and Japan may scrap plans to hold a joint maritime search and rescue drill scheduled for later this month, ...

The number of women's toilets installed at Japan's train stations is only about 60% the total of men's, according to sample ...

An executive committee that spent over a decade advocating for war-renouncing Article 9 of Japan's Constitution to be ...

Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 1.8 percent in the July-September period, marking the first contraction in six ...

A Cambodia-based Chinese firm on a U.S. sanctions list for its involvement in international fraud and human trafficking has ...

Taiki Ishikami plated three runs while Taisei Ota gave up a ninth-inning run as Japan tied 7-7 with South Korea on Sunday in ...

OSAKA -- "I shouldn't have agreed so easily," a man said as he expressed regret about his owner contracts with major Japanese convenience store chain Ministop after operating six stores in Osaka ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nearly half of full-time workers in their 20s in Japan engage in "oshi-katsu" activities in support of their ...

The Chinese government on Sunday urged its citizens to carefully reconsider studying in Japan, citing what it described as an ...

A woman in her 40s was stabbed by a man in central Tokyo's Akasaka district on Sunday, police said, adding that the suspected ...

By Damian Flanagan The other day I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting presentation about antique books by an ...