Popular images of drinking in Japan often involve office workers sharing toasts and casting off their inhibitions. But ...

Executives at a major home tutoring operator on June 25 apologized to Kumamoto Mayor Toshiharu Takaoka for an error in online ...

Visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and trying an AI system designed to answer questions using atomic bombing ...

Hokkaido University's chemistry department has permitted several associate professors -- who had previously complained of ...

A December 2024 fire at a waste processing plant here was likely caused by a lithium-ion battery improperly mixed into ...

The Iranian leadership's promises of retaliation against the U.S. prompted concerns that tensions in the Middle East would ...

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) arrested two men on June 24 on suspicion of fraud after they allegedly posed as Los Angeles Dodgers ...

Japan's military test-fired a missile on Japanese territory for the first time Tuesday, as the country accelerates its ...

The United Nations will reduce its staff by 20 percent and consider realigning more than 140 related institutions, senior ...

The Yakult Swallows reiterated Wednesday they will grant star slugger Munetaka Murakami's wish to play in the major leagues ...

Shohei Ohtani hit his National League-leading 27th home run of the season in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 9-7 win over the ...

The government on Wednesday revoked Japan Post Co.'s license to operate all of its roughly 2,500 freight vans and trucks ...