BEIJING--Four boats capsized in a sudden storm on a river in southwestern China, leaving nine people dead and one missing, ...

The number of children under 15 years old in Japan is 13.66 million, 350,000 fewer than in 2024 and the lowest on record, the ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...

OSAKA—The boy character on packaging of the long-selling Bisco biscuit has been redesigned for the first time in 20 years to increase overseas sales.

Waymo LLC, which operates fully autonomous, driverless taxis in the United States, has announced that it would start collecting road data in Tokyo to explore the possibilities of offering commercial ...

Museum collections professor Ayumi Terada admitted being overwhelmed by the lack of diversity in an exhibition she organized ...

A gin distillery on the remote island of Fukuejima is doing its part to help the city of Goto achieve net zero CO2 emissions ...

A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces ...

The skulls of three Ainu individuals were returned from Britain to Hokkaido, the third repatriation of the indigenous ...

A woman’s research into the word “kizuna” (bonds) led to an extensive survey on how foreign technical intern trainees were ...

Lawyers groups are pressing Japan to join other countries in demanding the United States rescind its sanctions imposed on the ...

Fewer Japanese believe their society is rooted in democracy compared with 10 years ago, a survey by The Asahi Shimbun shows.