A variety of coral in the Pacific Ocean off Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan has begun its annual spawning.

Convenience store operator Lawson is going digital to boost sales amid a severe labor shortage. It opened a next-generation ...

Japan's Cabinet has decided to schedule an Upper House election for July 20, with official notices going out on July 3.

Nissan Motor is now holding a stockholders' meeting at its headquarters near Tokyo. Attention is on whether the struggling ...

Sakamoto Shinobu was poisoned by mercury while in her mother's womb and has been suffering from Minamata disease since birth.

Qatar temporarily closed its airspace over its capital Doha on Monday due to Iran's missile attack on a US base in the ...

Tokyo Olympic judo gold medalist Wolf Aaron, who retired from the sport earlier this month, is embarking on a new career in ...

A large-scale international workshop on disaster preparedness held under Japan's initiative has opened in Taiwan, which is ...

A national survey shows the price of rice at Japanese supermarkets dropped for a fourth straight week, hitting a 3-month low.

Okinawa's WWII battle sites left countless scars still visible today. We follow one American woman's efforts to uncover and ...

The Battle of Okinawa ended 80 years ago, and many residents are still desperately looking for relatives who died. Newsroom ...

Sake is gaining popularity around the world. Now, one young couple in Singapore has set up the country's first brewery. But ...