The Japan Transport Safety Board, an affiliate of the transport ministry, has issued a warning as accidents involving water scooters have been rising recently. In the 10 years to 2018, a total of 454 accidents involving the vehicles occurred, leaving 59 people dead and 510 ...

Despite Japan's growing obsession with digital communications, singles in Nagano Prefecture have gone head over heels for a decidedly old-fashioned correspondence program in Chino that links strangers seeking marriage partners through shared, handwritten diaries. The Chino Municipal Government launched the so-called Yui Nikki (Bond Diary) ...

The proportion of children with allergies or dental problems is more than 10 times higher in families on welfare than in those not receiving benefits, a recent university study showed. Stress, house dust and a lack of supervision with no one around to guide children ...

A woman in her 70s from Saitama Prefecture who recently returned from a visit to Congo tests negative for a possible Ebola infection at a Tokyo medical institute.

The U.S. is hoping to deploy new ground-based intermediate-range missiles to Asia "sooner rather than later," U.S. defense chief Mark Esper said of a move that could have huge ramifications for regional security. Esper's remarks were likely to raise already-soaring tensions with Beijing and add ...

Fans visit so-called holy sites featured in the Kyoto Animation’s works and pray for those killed in the July arson attack on the company’s studio.

When Barack Obama was elected as America's first black president in 2008, many believed it was a watershed moment for a country bearing the scars of slavery. Just over a decade later, as the 2020 presidential campaign heats up, the divisive issue of race is ...

An exiled Thai critic of the country’s military and monarchy said he was attacked in his home in Japan last month with a substance that burned his skin and believes Thai authorities were involved.

For Japanese break dancer Shigeyuki Nakarai, the prospect of winning a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics has become something of an obsession. The proposal by Paris organizers in February to include the street dance lit a fire under the 17-year-old, known as Shigekix, ...

In April, Japan undertook a policy initiative meant to alleviate problems caused by its rapidly graying population, including labor shortages, rural depopulation and increasing pressure on social services. Key to the policy is a visa plan to bring in more foreign labor over the next ...

Despite unease in Tokyo, U.S. President Donald Trump has directly told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he will continue to tolerate North Korea’s test-firings of short-range ballistic missiles.

Behind the LDP's grip on power for much of the more than six decades after its establishment in 1955 is the loyal support from farmers.

A ban on vaping in San Francisco might drive more teens to smoke cigarettes.

Daniel Perel has spent over 35 years working in the luxury goods market, most of that in Asia, but his passion for the field remains as strong as ever.

When considering your role as a teacher it is best to think about what your students and employer want, and don't forget to take cultural differences into account.

There are some animals who spend years, even decades in a cage, even at ARK. They are the passed-over ones, the forgotten, those who have become lost in the shelter and amid the competition for adoption. This handsome gray tabby is one such. He and ...

Tokyo's Yanaka district ghosts are back to haunt the public via rakugo storyteller Sanyutei Encho's collection of spooky paintings.

First-division returnee Matsumoto Yamaga made life hard on title-chasing Kawasaki Frontale on Sunday, holding the two-time defending champions to a scoreless draw. Content to let Frontale control the ball for most of the game, the visitors frustrated their opponents' efforts to create space in the ...

Bryan Rodriguez allowed one run over five innings, and Haruki Nishikawa put Hokkaido Nippon Ham ahead with a two-run double as the Fighters beat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 4-3 in the Pacific League on Sunday. The win lifted the second-place Fighters to within 2½ games ...

Pep Guardiola has dominated English soccer in his time at Manchester City, winning five of the six domestic trophies in the last two seasons, and is once again putting Premier League glory at the top of his list of ambitions for the new season. On ...

Yuto Horigome won the skateboard street contest at the X Games in Minneapolis on Saturday with less than a year to go before the sport makes its debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The 20-year-old Horigome showed off his Olympic form with an 89.00-point gold-medal ...