Registration for the lottery will be possible from May 9 via the ticket sales website, where users can choose which Olympic events they wish to attend.

Nichii Gakkan wrote in a statement it decided to close most of the language schools as they were deemed unlikely to turn a profit.

“It was unexpected, but I’m especially happy that they used ‘wa’ in the name,” says an Osaka shopkeeper.

The spouse of an active duty Marine in Okinawa Prefecture is championing an initiative to provide support for people who have been sexually assaulted by members of the U.S. military. Adrian Perry is the co-founder of Survivors United, an organization created in 2018 that aims ...

The announcement was made following accusations that bribery was involved in Tokyo being chosen as the host city for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Mark Karpeles gets a suspended term for data manipulation related to the scandalous disappearance of 850,000 bitcoins in 2014 but is found not guilty of embezzlement.

This is the first in a series examining how the northeast and the nation are progressing with efforts to deal with the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. Nearly a thousand storage tanks are scattered across the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, holding ...

Vanessa Oshima has been running every day since her friend was diagnosed with cancer six years ago, and she made a promise that she would finish a 5 km run daily until her friend no longer showed any evidence of the disease. Then, two years ...

Many participants say the program is a scam and they are being forced to repay loans by working illegally long hours.

Gov. Yuriko Koike spoke to the press Monday about her plans to repurpose the former site of the Tsukiji fish market and strengthen ties with Osaka prior to the 2020 Olympic Games and 2025 World Expo, setting out her ambitions for ongoing development of ...