North Korea says the country's ruling Workers' Party has decided to convene its Ninth Congress. Considered the party's ...

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.

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

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

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

Japanese weather officials on Monday said a stationary rain front has destabilized atmospheric conditions from Tohoku, ...

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 ...

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 ...