The government has decided to regularly distribute additional portions of its emergency rice reserves until summer after a ...

SENDAI--In response to soaring living costs, an initiative that provides warm and nutritious meals to struggling residents ...

A startup has applied for approval to manufacture and sell sheets of human heart muscles generated from iPS cells that can be transplanted into patients with severe heart failure.

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) will begin a test run this autumn of facial recognition ticket gates to allow passengers to walk through without needing to stop or use physical tickets.

Rice prices across Japan climbed for the 13th consecutive week, even as the first wave of the staple crop from the government ...

BANGKOK--Asian and European shares slid on Wednesday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 closing almost 4% lower after launch of the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is clearly a stickler when it comes to image, but he seems to be ignoring that quality in a ...

Top executives of Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest crime syndicate in Japan, submitted a pledge to Hyogo prefectural police to end ...

FRANKFURT--Global stock markets extended a severe plunge Monday, fueled by fears that U.S. tariffs would lead to a global ...

TOKYO--Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...

After failing in his own attempt, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba instructed his Cabinet ministers to call on the Trump ...