On the solemn mountaintop in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture, a sacred Buddhist site popular with inbound visitors to Japan, a walk ...

The first oral argument regarding a resident lawsuit seeking damages over a public opinion survey conducted by Mie Prefecture ...

The municipal assembly in this Kyoto Prefecture city adopted a written opinion on Sept. 10 calling for the Japanese ...

Japan's restaurant industry has begun its annual "tsukimi" (moon-viewing) sales season, now an autumn fixture. Companies are ...

Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a New York attorney who has been a leading advocate for ...

Mt. Fuji's climbing season ended on Thursday, with foreigners accounting for 32 percent of climbers during the season that ...

Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) is set to establish an expert panel to discuss ways to use foreign workers in the ...

Twenty-five years later, the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are still remembered as among the most important historic events in ...

More than 30 percent of unmarried people aged between 18 and 34 in Japan do not wish to have children, the highest percentage ...

Injured yokozuna Hoshoryu on Friday has withdrawn from the upcoming Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament. The Mongolian-born grand ...

The Japanese government on Friday decided to provide up to 98 billion yen ($635 million) to support five more capital ...

A new five-year integrated bachelor's and master's program at the University of Tokyo teaching all courses in English will ...