Five-time Paralympic swimming gold medalist Junichi Kawai was named the new head of Japan’s Sports Agency, effective Oct. 1.

A Japanese research team's experiment involving disguising a cow as a zebra to fend off bloodthirsty insects received the ...

A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to allow married couples to keep dual surnames, saying the ...

The government plans to require a minimum employment period of two years in certain industries before foreign workers can ...

Despite repeated government clarifications, the uproar caused by misinformation about Japan’s immigration policy continues to ...

The Tower Records Shibuya store in central Tokyo continues to defy the odds, thriving at a time when more consumers are ...

Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the ...

YANGON—The latest coaching gig of retired Japanese footballer Hisashi Kurosaki puts him in a place surrounded by civil war, ...

A joint team of researchers from Kyoto University and other institutions has partially uncovered why periodical cicadas ...

Faced with a dwindling client base, driving school operators across Japan have found a new niche by offering practical ...

Japanese students are increasingly heading to Taiwan to study, thanks to expectations of extensive language education, ...

Japan is finalizing plans not to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state for the time being, following the lead of the ...