The Fukui prefectural government issued 1.4 billion yen ($9.5 million) of public bonds titled the “Kyoryu Gakubu Oen Bond" ...

Told he had only three or four years to live, Ichiro Hatanaka decided to reach out to fellow sufferers of amyotrophic lateral ...

Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

The word “remorse” appeared for the first time in 13 years in the prime minister’s address at an annual memorial service to ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

OSAKA—Visitors stranded in the sweltering heat at the Osaka Kansai Expo venue lashed out at organizers, saying they failed to ...

MANILA--Two Japanese men shot to death in the Philippines' capital here were targeted by a Japanese acquaintance who staged ...

While the family lived apart, Japan attacked the U.S. military base and airfields at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December 1941.

An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been ...

Chinese media representatives swarmed around a small-statured man as he apologized before a memorial monument on the ...

BEIJING--The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and ...