IT’S 8 AM ON NOV 7 at Tottori Port. Inside a nondescript warehouse, a large congregation of mostly men in rubber boots and ...

The enigmatic photo went viral on social media, drawing considerable attention even outside Japan. Ohno submitted ... “Photographed was a concrete wall of the water channel linked to a floodgate ...

TAKARAZUKA, Hyogo Prefecture--A special exhibition dedicated to Buichi Terasawa is running at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum here. The event features 100 or so handwritten manuscripts, original ...

American investment could become less welcome, undermining Japan’s progress on corporate reforms.

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

Toyota’s futuristic Woven City, which is being built on the site of a former car factory in Japan, is almost ready for its ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the planned admission fee hike for Himeji Castle in ...

Representatives of the Israel Antiquities Authority are expected to aid in the removal of the stone from the southern area of the wall. A nearly empty Western Wall plaza is seen in Jerusalem's ...

Asian stocks are mixed after Wall Street snapped out of a spell of holiday season blues, with markets in Tokyo and China declining. Japan’s finance minister rang in the New Year as Tokyo’s market ...

BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, said on Thursday it will leave the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, the latest Wall Street firm to depart an environmentally focused investor group ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

Participants begin to run toward the main building at 6 a.m. on Friday at Nishinomiya Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture ... Jomon Period Record 320 School Staff Punished for Sex Offenses in Japan New Year’s ...