A new station being built on Tokyo's Yamanote loop line was shown to the media Wednesday with around 70 percent of the construction work completed. The station, which has yet to be named but will be located between the current Shinagawa and Tamachi stops, will ...

A 91-year-old historic residence in Tokyo will turn into a business hub starting next month with a goal of helping company executives and entrepreneurs cultivate new ideas and communicate freely, operators of the facility announced Wednesday. The Spanish-style house located near Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo's ...

Lawmaker Denny Tamaki, who was reportedly designated by Okinawa’s late anti-U.S. base governor, Takeshi Onaga, as his successor, formally declared his candidacy for the gubernatorial election.

A fifth elderly patient in Gifu Prefecture has died at a hospital where air conditioning units had broken down amid a heat wave that has gripped the country.

It was literally an out-of-this-world idea that seemed unfeasible when it struck her nearly two decades ago: Made-to-order shooting stars. But Lena Okajima's audacious project to reproduce nature's fireworks for mass entertainment is getting ready for takeoff. "The concept dawned on me when I watched ...

In early August, as much of the country suffered through some of its hottest temperatures on record, a small town in Hokkaido welcomed visitors from around the world to an annual photography festival that celebrated the outdoors. Under sunny skies and low humidity, with the ...

Myanmar rejected Wednesday the findings of a U.N. probe alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, after the U.S. and other countries joined growing calls for the accused to face justice. Myanmar has come under immense pressure this week over last year's military crackdown ...

U.S. officials expressed irritation that Japan was not forthright about a “secret” meeting in Vietnam with North Korea despite Washington’s near-constant updates to Tokyo on its dealings with Pyongyang.

China's moves to combat an aging population by relaxing decades-old curbs on family size have hit an unexpected snag: Many parents are no longer interested in having more babies. The government has indicated it will scrap its policy which limits the number of children per ...

Scientists agree that global carbon dioxide emissions must reach a turning point in 2020 if we are to achieve carbon neutrality. Progress must be accelerated.

Trump is wrong on the facts, but his complaints underscore the business threats to tech companies from growing and largely disingenuous complaints by right-wingers.

Shocked by gender inequality and wanting to do something about it, Noemi Inoue decided to naturalize and stand for her local council.

As Japan continues to court more foreign tourists, the nation must learn to respect foreign languages as much as its own.

The thriving British music scene of the mid-1990s was awash with techno, Britpop and newer genres like jungle and trip-hop. When Reef burst onto the scene, the group's heavier style of rock must have felt like an actual oasis to some listeners. The band's debut ...

Chess pops up in a surprising number of feature films. Just look at all the documentaries and dramas about the outrageously gifted Bobby Fischer. Shogi, or Japanese chess, is a different and smaller story, though "Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow," a 2016 film about ...

The work of the late novelist Yasushi Sato, who took his own life in 1990, has been enjoying a minor cinematic renaissance over the past decade. Starting with Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "Sketches of Kaitan City" in 2010, the author's stories have spawned four films to ...

With about half a month left before the Sept. 16 retirement of pop singer Namie Amuro, a video disc set of her last tour hit the stores Wednesday.

A day after seeing his team's nine-game win streak end, Kenji Akashi's tie-breaking pinch-hit double sparked the SoftBank Hawks to a 7-0 Pacific League win over the Lotte Marines on Wednesday. Hawks starter Yuki Matsumoto, making his third start of the season, dueled Tanner Scheppers ...

Ami Kondo had already established her status as one of the elite judoka in her weight class in the world. But now she is about to be known as one who falls short in the clutch. The 23-year-old was hoping to snap a streak of ...

Japanese teenagers Sakura Yosozumi and Kensuke Sasaoka provided a next-generation entree to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with gold medals in skateboarding at the Asian Games. The 16-year-old Yosozumi, an X Games and Park Series Pro Tour medalist, won the women's park final at Jakabaring Sport ...

Roger Federer made light of energy-sapping conditions to brush past Yoshihito Nishioka 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 in his opening match at the U.S. Open on Tuesday. Where other players had slogged through long rallies as the temperature hit 32 degrees Celsius, Federer kept his time on ...

Former national team manager Akira Nishino admits he still has regrets about Japan's exit from this summer's World Cup in Russia, but he believes the team has a bright future under successor Hajime Moriyasu. "Moriyasu hasn't been a manager for a great deal of time ...

The four men's national basketball team players who allegedly paid women for sex in Jakarta during the ongoing Asian Games have been handed a one-year ban by the Japan Basketball Association, the organization announced on Wednesday. The ban, effective from the announcement, includes B. League ...

Who spends the most time in a sumo ring? Wrestlers? Nope. Referees? Uh-uh. As any veteran fan can tell you, it is of course the yobidashi. Sumo's 'ring announcers' not only maintain the dohyo but also build the thing in the first place. Over the course of three days ...

"Nippon! Nippon!" Most of the people chanting were Indonesian. But their support for the Japanese men's basketball team echoed loudly around the arena and created a lively atmosphere. To be fair, there were many rooting for the Qatar team as well. After all, the fans did ...

Nadeshiko Japan's players provided a ray of light for their country on an otherwise gloomy, goldless Tuesday at the Asian Games, the women's soccer team winning through to the final with a victory over South Korea. The 2-1 triumph for Asako Takakura's team booked a ...

The Japan Rugby Football Union said Wednesday it was still hopeful of a big crowd for the Oct. 27 Bledisloe Cup game at Yokohama's Nissan Stadium, despite the game being a dead rubber. New Zealand's 40-12 win over Australia last weekend in Auckland saw the ...