KYOTO—Tairyu-Sanso Garden here, a government-designated site of scenic beauty that was once closed to the public, is now ...

The No. 1 reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, which is the oldest operating nuclear ...

The New Year’s Eve countdown event at Shibuya’s scramble crossing, a hugely popular tourist spot in Tokyo, has been canceled ...

A Chinese state-owned enterprise is believed to have offered funding to a Japanese executive in 2019 when the central ...

OSAKA—The Osaka municipal government will start to ban smoking on all public streeets across the city on Jan. 27 next year, ...

Three organizations, including the Japan Actors Union, called on the public to not use artificial intelligence for foreign ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia--Several international airlines canceled flights to and from Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali on ...

The CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. expressed high hopes for Japan’s role in the artificial intelligence ...

A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

The steam of miso soup comforts me at this time of year. I received my miso from my friend Masami Horie in Shiga Prefecture, ...

The Philippine government said Wednesday its law enforcement agencies will be bound to cooperate if the International ...

BANGKOK--In case you can’t get enough of the little pygmy hippo Moo Deng from Thailand, there's now an official song ...