HIROSHIMA—A sales representative with no experience in product development played an integral role in creating a slow-melting ...

Online claw machine games have been grabbing attention by allowing players to remotely control real machines and collect ...

The Japanese word shinitai, meaning “want to die,” was the most common keystroke related to psychological stress among ...

Hundreds of people staged a street protest in Tokyo over inflammatory remarks made against foreigners in the leadup to last ...

Iran’s foreign minister is calling on Japan to join Tehran in leading a global movement to abolish weapons of mass ...

Tensions ran high among residents and visitors after tsunami warnings were issued along Japan’s Pacific coast on July 30 ...

The ruling coalition’s drubbing in the July 20 Upper House election and its severe bruising in the Lower House poll last ...

Just over half of Japanese voters approve of the surge by Sanseito, an Asahi Shimbun poll found, after the party known for ...

In one small step for astronaut foods and one giant leap for Japanese cuisine, miso became the first successful fermentation ...

Mitsuharu Fukazawa, who has devoted himself to the development of UFO Catchers at Sega over the course of more than two ...

Despite another delay in the start of fuel debris removal at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the plant ...

Once popular amid rising health awareness, smaller amateur marathons around Japan are struggling with declining participation ...