Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

BEIJING--The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and ...

A historical novel published privately by a distant descendant of the Koka ninja clan has proved to be an unexpected hit ...

A minicar covered in graffiti, a weather beaten sports car looking naked without tires and an automobile that appears to have ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

OSAKA—Visitors stranded in the sweltering heat at the Osaka Kansai Expo venue lashed out at organizers, saying they failed to ...

Melted fuel debris retrieved from a crippled reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was found to be more brittle ...

Treated as “gods” for sacrificing their lives to protect their country and their families, kamikaze pilots have inspired ...

A long-running column in the Shukan Shincho weekly magazine was discontinued after the often-criticized author drew protests ...

While the family lived apart, Japan attacked the U.S. military base and airfields at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December 1941.

Researchers are raising an alarm over recent studies showing that plastic pollution is continuing to spread across the land ...