Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could be heading for a big win in the coming Lower House election, Jiji Press forecasts.

A small single-engine plane landed in a river in Fukui Prefecture on Sunday after reporting engine trouble, and all four men on board were able to escape without injury. The Beechcraft A36 Bonanza landed in the Kuzuryu River, between the cities of Sakai and Fukui ...

The agriculture ministry will undertake an experiment in fiscal 2018 to create an integrated communications system for managing information on game or fowl, in order to encourage people to eat wild meat without concern. The system traces the entire process from the capture of wild ...

"Glamping" — i.e., camping but with the comforts of modern amenities — has been growing in popularity in Fukushima Prefecture as more people look to bring a new level of luxury to the great outdoors. Koriyama-based Magonote Travel hosted a one-day tour in mid-September to ...

Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso singles out North Korea’s development of deliverable nuclear weapons as “the most significant geopolitical risk” to steady and broad-based economic growth.

Nearly 2,000 fire ants, including two queens, are discovered along with eggs and pupae in a warehouse in the city of Muko, Kyoto Prefecture, in a shipping container that arrived from China.

Volunteers have set up websites to help voters make their choices for next week's Lower House election. Charity Japan's online map (charity-japan.com/event/6754) allows people to watch videos of street speeches by clicking on each party's symbol. They can also share information on the schedule and ...

Before Hisashi Kanbe in 2013 introduced BakeryScan, the world's first image recognition checkout system designed specifically for bread, it was the job of every bakery worker in Japan to memorize the assorted prices of each baked good — from baguettes back to bagels. Unlike shrink-wrapped ...

In the seaside city of Wonsan, North Korean families cook up barbecues on the beach, go fishing, and eat royal jelly flavored ice cream in the summer breeze. For their leader Kim Jong Un, the resort is a summer retreat, a future temple to ...

Businesses and brands must be prepared to default to more diversity rather than homogeneity in their relations with stakeholders and consumers.

Pundits have been saying last rites for the dollar's global dominance since the 1960s. They may finally be right.

It's one of those fleeting parenting moments when my normally nonstop high-volume children are awake, but silent. The reason for this? They are studiously poring over a table covered with a neatly aligned assortment of wood cutouts — a cat, a witch, a star, ...

Haro, the cute robot mascot of the anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam," is about to get real.

Bureaucrats rustle up policies that require citizens to do their duty, however irrationally.

Shine On! Kids offers support and encouragement to very ill children and their families around Japan.

First featured here in April, Nakamun now graces the home of the Boldi family from Italy.

The Alvark Tokyo are starting to hit their stride. And with six games in the books, new coach Luka Pavicevic's vision for the team is starting to take shape. Tokyo exhibited patience on offense early on and then picked apart the undermanned Yokohama B-Corsairs' zone ...

Hideki Matsuyama gave himself a damning report card on Sunday as he slumped to a fifth-place finish in the PGA Tour's season-opening CIMB Classic. Although he managed his third straight top-five finish at the event on the par-72 course at TPC Kuala Lumpur, Matsuyama said, ...

Ventforet Kofu missed a chance to move three points clear of the relegation zone after being held to a 1-1 draw at home to 10-man FC Tokyo in the J. League on Sunday. Ventforet came into the game looking to extend their winning streak to ...

It took a home run on the very first pitch of the game, a squeeze play and a lot from Takayuki Kishi, but the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are still alive and kicking. Kishi turned in a great start on the mound against his old ...

Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso stole the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix from Marc Marquez at Honda's home circuit on Sunday, cutting the Spanish rider's championship lead to just 11 points. Dovizioso took the race lead from Marquez for the first time with six laps to go at ...

Manchester City opened up a two-point lead over neighbor Manchester United at the top of the Premier League thanks to another display of scintillating brilliance in a 7-2 thrashing of Stoke City at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. After the high-noon showdown between Liverpool and ...