In a first for the nation, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government passed an ordinance to protect workers from customer harassment ...

Japan's development aid to Afghanistan strengthens the Taliban. Instead, Tokyo should support those, like exiled Afghans, who ...

Visual communication tools like tsunami flags are critical at swimming beaches, where sound can be obscured by waves and wind ...

Ayami Sato may be the most dominant female pitcher ever to pick up a baseball. Her fastball has been clocked at almost 128 ...

The recent heat continues a run of high temperatures stretching back through the summer, with eastern and western Japan ...

Rikuya Morita and three other men allegedly broke into an elderly couple’s residence in the city of Tokorozawa, Saitama ...

Flights resumed at a regional Japanese airport Thursday after an unexploded World War II U.S. bomb blew up less than a minute ...

The latest data — for the week of Sept. 16 to 22 — showed cases averaging roughly six times the number from the same week ...

Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain — towering 5.5 miles (8.85 kilometers) above sea level — and is actually still ...

Saki Michimoto's stylish and accomplished debut feature centers on a gifted photographer, her art school friends and their ...

On Wednesday, the Dodgers said Jack Flaherty would start Game 1 and Yamamoto would follow in the best-of-five series.

The transport ministry will require passenger ships operating in cold waters to carry life rafts from next April. The move ...