A two-day festival in Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture, gives high school students from across Japan a chance to display their ...

The main hall of Shuri Castle in Okinawa, southern Japan, is being rebuilt after it was destroyed by fire in 2019.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus leads Bangladesh's interim government after the ouster of its previous ...

The Yokai Ubume was said to be a ghostly woman appearing at night, asking passersby to hold her child under threat of death.

Japanese authorities plan to begin a search for unexploded World War Two bombs at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan next ...

The president at Seven & i Holdings has said he will seriously examine an acquisition proposal from a major Canadian ...

The Japan External Trade Organization, or JETRO, has opened an office in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv to help Japanese ...

One economic "virtuous cycle" theory says higher prices lead to salary increases that then fuel further spending and growth. An economist thinks Japan may be on the brink of achieving it.

N. Korea renews hostilities on Korean Peninsula Pyongyang is upping hostilities against South Korea, signaling a new approach ...

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that a severe geomagnetic storm caused by solar flares could ...

Papers have been sent to prosecutors on a Tokyo rental firm manager who allegedly allowed foreign tourists to drive go-karts ...

Toyota Motor is returning to Formula 1 through a technical partnership with a US-based racing team. The company says the deal ...