U.S. President Joe Biden blocked Nippon Steel's proposed $14.9 billion purchase of U.S. Steel citing national security ...

KYOTO--A ceremonial event to mark the New Year featured women in gorgeous Heian Period (794-1185) court attire giving a ...

SEOUL--South Korean investigators again asked the country's acting president on Saturday to order the presidential security ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya ...

A street entertainer who counts Tokyo’s Shibuya as his patch has only nice things to say to the people he meets.

The male Siberian cat, named Mir, was gifted by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Akita Governor Norihisa Satake as a ...

The city government here will offer guests a chance to experience the splendor of a samurai-style tea ceremony hosted by a ...

The Agency for Cultural Affairs is soliciting public comments about its plans to change romanization rules of the Japanese ...

Wearing menacing masks and straw coats, a father-son team kept a tradition alive here by making the rounds and terrifying ...

Warmer ocean temperatures are blamed for a major bleaching event this summer that killed 61.2 percent of corals off Amami-Oshima island.

Surrounded by disaster debris and with tears welling in his eyes, Keisuke Oma offered a 30-second silent prayer here on Jan.

The estimated number of New Year’s cards delivered on Jan. 1 plunged 34 percent from a year ago--the steepest decline in more ...