The word “remorse” appeared for the first time in 13 years in the prime minister’s address at an annual memorial service to ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA--Two Japanese men shot to death in the Philippines' capital here were targeted by a Japanese acquaintance who staged ...

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

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

An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been ...

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

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

Chinese media representatives swarmed around a small-statured man as he apologized before a memorial monument on the ...