A woman was killed after heavy rain flooded an underpass in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 7, as torrential downpours across ...

TOKYO-- A hygiene product developed by a Japanese company based in the city of Shikokuchuo, Ehime Prefecture, has won the top ...

Foreign buyers are flooding Japan's used-car market, seeing opportunity in the yen's historic weakness. Competition with ...

A game in eastern Japan is paying players to snap pictures of utility poles with their smartphones, helping a ...

Japan's Crown Prince Fumihito and his wife Crown Princess Kiko left for Norway on Tuesday to attend the funeral of King ...

Iran state media on Monday said a ballistic missile with improved capabilities was demonstrating a new doctrine: Tehran ...

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Japan's economy expanded an annualized real 1.4 percent in the April-June quarter, revised up from a 1.1 percent increase in ...

The U.S. dollar briefly fell into the 152 yen range in Tokyo on Tuesday morning, the first time since February, amid ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is expected to skip the opening ceremony for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games that will be ...

Indonesia reopened five airports early Tuesday, including the country's main Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, ...

A subsidiary of major Japanese wig maker Aderans Co. ran advertisements disguised as user posts on a popular Japanese online ...