People in Japan were swindled out of a record 324.11 billion yen ($2.1 billion) in 2025 in investment and romance scams on ...

KYOTO -- Geiko and their "maiko" apprentices will perform an elegant dance drama based on the European folk tale "Cinderella" ...

With bear sightings and incidents increasing nationwide, a research team at Akita University focusing on the elderly will ...

U.S. restaurant chain Anna Miller's will reopen in Japan for the first time in three years on Friday, with its distinctive ...

Japan and the United States agreed Thursday to speed up selection of the first round of investment projects under a $550 ...

The pair of animals chosen as mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are stoats -- weasel-like creatures ...

KOBE -- A 36-year-old company employee living in Tokyo experienced being a "mayor for a day" at Nishinomiya City Hall in Hyogo Prefecture on Feb. 10 as a return gift for donating 1 million yen ...

Japan's Mitsuki Ono won bronze and U.S. snowboarding great Chloe Kim took silver as 17-year-old South Korean Choi Ga On was ...

The Wakayama prefectural chapter of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) sent a letter of protest to the party's ...

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych pushed at the limits of the International Olympic Committee's rules on freedom of express ...

At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh -- a sprawling riverside industrial facility and the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere -- erupted in an ear-piercing boom ...

A type 2 diabetes drug approved by Japan's health ministry is being taken by young people seeking rapid weight loss, a ...