A 128-year-old wooden train station building in this western Japan city was renovated into a hotel and is now open to guests.

Temperatures soared across Japan on July 14 as a high-pressure system covered a broad swath of the country from east to west.

Cool Japan Fund Inc., a public-private fund overseen by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to pitch Japanese culture ...

Tokyo stocks erased earlier losses and ended higher Tuesday, lifted by some heavyweight technology shares that drew ...

The child who will ride atop the Naginata Boko float, which leads the first procession of the ancient Japanese capital's Gion ...

A monument inscribed with a haiku by Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union's first president and former Belgian prime ...

Wood painter Kento Takeda, 28, who paints on timber left by his late grandfather, is holding a solo exhibition until July 20 ...

The capital's Toshima Ward has launched measures to curb the illegal dumping of suitcases by raising awareness of reuse ...

Ten years after an international arbitral ruling that found against China's sweeping sovereignty claims in the South China ...

The remarks by Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara at a regular press conference came after U.S. Secretary of State Marco ...

More than 1,100 lanterns bearing children's wishes are illuminating the city center here as part of the "Negai Chochin Yassho ...

Japan's House of Councillors has passed a bill to revise Japan's personal information protection law, allowing companies ...