Very hot summers in Japan are changing famous summer events. Some festivals now happen in spring or autumn because of extreme ...

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and his wife have gifted Shohei Ohtani's baby daughter with a pink toy Porsche.

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The northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has seen a series of earthquakes registering 4 on Japan's 7-point seismic intensity ...

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Major convenience store chains FamilyMart, Lawson and 7-Eleven are set to begin selling reserve rice released by the Japanese ...

The Japanese government is set to tighten measures against unpaid medical bills left by foreign tourists who received ...

Japan's Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, departed for Brazil on Wednesday to promote ties between the two ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told a visiting top Russian official that his country will ...

A mechanism by which pancreatic cancer, known as a difficult-to-treat form of cancer, becomes malignant has been uncovered by ...

Japan's real wages in April fell 1.8 percent from a year earlier, marking the fourth consecutive monthly decline, as pay ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is considering a plan to allow a state minister, who would lead a to-be-established disaster ...