Tokyo residents and visitors to the capital will face road closures starting early Sunday morning due to the 12th annual Tokyo Marathon. The Tokyo Marathon Foundation, the event's organizer, said 36,000 people will take part. The runners will depart from a plaza in front of the ...

A dream can sometimes stay with us all day, perhaps even longer. Other times we wake up and don't really remember much of what we've dreamed about. But what about other animals? Do they dream? It's a question we'll perhaps never be able to ...

Nissan and the game maker plan to hold a two-week experiment in Yokohama to develop a ride-hailing app for self-driving cabs.

France will clamp down on farmland purchases by foreign buyers, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, responding to a controversy over deals attributed to a Chinese firm. While Chinese investors have acquired a number of wine estates and formed partnerships with dairy companies in France, ...

Hospitals and clinics in rural areas are finding it increasingly difficult to hire nurses on their own, and the amount of referral fees they are paying to private agents are significantly on the rise, a recent research report shows. To employ a full-time nurse the ...

As more foreign travelers visit the historic Japanese capital of Kyoto crowded and delayed city buses have become a headache for local citizens, prompting traffic authorities to take steps to ensure smoother passenger services and encourage the use of subway lines. For over 40 years, ...

More and more couples from overseas are holding wedding ceremonies in Kyoto, attracted by the ancient capital's reputation as symbolizing traditional Japanese culture. In 2015 the city government started to issue marriage certificates for foreign couples who held weddings in the city, following information from ...

Keito Kobayashi runs a business consultancy out of a condominium in Tokyo, but when he needs to hold a face-to-face meeting with clients he reaches for his smartphone and books a room elsewhere. Kobayashi, 34, is a frequent user of an online conference-room and space-matching ...

The Punjab National Bank branch in south Mumbai sits just down the road from both the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Reserve Bank of India, at a physical center of one of the world's fastest-growing major economies. The branch, clad in a stately colonial edifice, ...

Tokyo welcomes a World Trade Organization ruling against South Korea’s ban on seafood from Fukushima Prefecture but Seoul plans to appeal.

Japanese companies are selling superlong bonds amid expectations that Haruhiko Kuroda's reappointment as central bank governor will prolong easy monetary policy, even as increases in overseas yields put pressure on domestic market rates to rise. Less than a week after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated ...

Tokyo criticized Seoul on Friday over a South Korean minister's use of the term "sex slaves" at a U.N. committee meeting in Geneva to describe the women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II. "Japan is of ...

The right-wing activists shot up the gate of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan at around 3:50 a.m. but no one was injured.

A chat app where South Koreans can anonymously dish the dirt on their misbehaving bosses and colleagues is belatedly stirring the country's Me Too movement, shedding new light on sexual harassment in the heavily male-dominated corporate culture. Prompted by a recent wave of complaints about ...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is in a bind. Either he risks losing political capital and thousands of high-paying jobs if General Motors cuts its presence in South Korea, or he faces a public backlash if he uses taxpayer money as a lifeline for the ...

The 6,236 kg of gold Japanese customs seized from tax dodgers in 2017 set a new one-year high and was worth around ¥28 billion.

Crown Prince Naruhito, who turned 58 on Friday, vowed to "pursue self-improvement" ahead of his accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1, 2019. Speaking about the emperor's constitutional role as symbol of the state in the upcoming new era, the Crown Prince said, "I ...

For residents of Syria's eastern Ghouta, five days of intense bombardment have imposed a new routine of terror in a district already tormented by years of siege. Syria's civil war has long dictated the rhythms of daily life in eastern Ghouta, the largest area held ...

The governor of Nigeria's Yobe state told locals in the village of Dapchi on Thursday that 76 of their schoolgirls who were reported to have been rescued from Islamist Boko Haram kidnappers were in fact still missing. The state government on Wednesday said the schoolgirls ...

The government needs to recognize the difference with other countries in its seriousness toward economic reforms and take much deeper steps.

Even the hardiest astronaut can't compete with robot labor, but there's a silver lining.

Sapporo balances a vibrant city feel with the quieter reprieves of lush parks, dense forests and meandering trails that speak to Hokkaido's nature-centric reputation. One minute you're fighting crowds at a fish market and the next you're listening to birds chirping in the Japanese ...

Kjeld Nuis of the Netherlands captured the gold medal in the men's 1,000-meter speedskating event at the Gangneung Oval on Friday night. The 28-year-old Dutchman won the Olympic title by just 0.04 of a second in a time of 1 minute, 7.95 seconds, to claim ...

Switzerland beat Canada 7-5 to take men's curling bronze Friday at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, sending the pre-tournament favorite home without a medal for the first time since the sport returned to the games in 1998. Canada's hopes of a fourth straight gold medal were ...

Alina Zagitova won the gold medal with an elegant and poised performance in the free skate at Gangneung Ice Arena on Friday afternoon. The 15-year-old Olympic Athlete from Russia became the second-youngest women's Olympic champion ever with the victory. Zagitova is one month older than ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is edging closer to allowing Russia to march behind its national flag at the Winter Games closing ceremony, sources said, in a move Moscow hopes will mark the end of its ostracism from world sport. Sources familiar with the matter ...

It was a suspenseful hockey match yesterday with the U.S. women's team beating Canada in overtime. The triumph was the second for the Americans in Olympic play, and first in 20 years, since the inaugural women’s tournament at the 1998 Nagano Games. Fans of Japan ...