KYOTO—For the first time in about seven years, major hotels here reported an occupancy rate of 90 percent in October, showing ...

Night owls this weekend can enjoy one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, with the Geminids blazing trails in ...

Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steelmaker, expects its annual global crude steel production capacity to rise to at least 100 ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his U.S counterpart, Pete Hegseth, held telephone talks on “increasingly ...

The Bank of Japan will likely maintain a pledge next week to keep raising interest rates, but stress the pace of further ...

KYOTO—The character for “kuma” (bear) is the kanji of the year, a not unexpected choice that narrowly edged out the character ...

China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, with President Xi Jinping not attending, ...

The government will dispatch civilians to work in an international body tasked with providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza ...

It is infuriating to be treated unfairly. You might let it go at first. But later, your anger will start a slow burn while ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking leap in identifying a set of gilt‑bronze armor fittings adorned with an intricate ...

Black Box Diaries,” a documentary in which Japanese journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault case and the ...

A Japanese research team has confirmed a new clione species first found about a decade ago that is believed to have evolved ...