The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

Opting for a lie-in as he marked his 41st birthday, Akihiro Shima took stock of his life. The musician didn’t have too many ...

Organizations are trying to bring overseas refugees to Japan to ease labor shortages, improve the economy and help Tokyo ...

Nearly 300 nongovernmental organizations issued a joint statement criticizing xenophobic comments made by candidates in the ...

OSAKA--Nayuta Sato has been playing the piano since he was 4 and always wanted to perform with his mother, who couldn’t play ...

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...

Since Mount Shinmoedake began erupting on June 22, experts are continuing to closely monitor the southern Kyushu volcano in ...

Many closed-down “sento” public bathhouses across Japan have been reborn as cafes or even “izakaya” pubs. But a few are now ...

According to the R-bies Sports Foundation, which tracks data on fun sports activities, Okuyama, now 97, is the oldest person ...

Dinosaur fossils unearthed in Mongolia half a century ago belong to a newly identified species that evolved into the massive ...

A “lawless” zone here overrun by foreign visitors and plagued by bad behavior has been tamed thanks to a multi-government ...

I saw an interesting scene in “Little Women” (2022), a South Korean serial TV drama, showing a woman released from a ...