Major Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu on Nov. 14 began selling rice produced in Taiwan, which is about 20% cheaper than the ...

Ozeki Hoshoryu narrowly escaped defeat against talented No. 3 maegashira Atamifuji to extend his unbeaten start to the Kyushu ...

Meiji University in Tokyo said Friday it has acquired the land and building of Hilltop Hotel adjacent to its main campus with ...

Five Vietnamese men in Japan have been arrested for allegedly breaking into the home of a fellow citizen in the Chiba ...

Three people jointly filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government on Nov. 13, claiming that they were unfairly restricted ...

In September, Seven-Eleven Japan Co., the largest convenience store chain in Japan, decided to release to the public its ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed Thursday that the two countries ...

About one month has passed since Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Oct. 13 and showed us its ...

Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) ...

YAMAGUCHI -- A bodybuilding contest was held onboard a "Muscle Train" on the JR Sanin Line in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Nov. 10 ...

The party of Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won a two-thirds majority in parliament, ac ...

Japan's economy grew an annualized real 0.9 percent in the three months through September, supported by solid consumer ...