A Joint Venture, which comprises Tokyo Metro Co., Sumitomo Corp. and a major U.K. passenger transport provider, will be ...

The Japanese economy is slowly recovering, but the risks ahead are increasing. The government must urgently intensify its ...

A 30-meter-high Christmas tree was lit up at Osaka theme park Universal Studios Japan on Tuesday. First appearing in 2004, ...

The oldest hippopotamus in Japan, a 49-year-old female called Zan, died Nov. 3, Sapporo Maruyama Zoo has announced. Zan ...

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Two French nationals working at Tour d’Argent Tokyo, a French restaurant in Japan’s capital, each received an order of merit ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average fell on Wednesday as caution set in ahead of U.S. AI darling Nvidia’s results and outlook later ...

Seven junior high school students in the city of Gero, Gifu Prefecture, tried their hand at guiding foreigners in English at ...

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California ...

Shares in Seven & i Holdings jumped more than 9% in early Tokyo trading on Wednesday following a media report that the ...

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that ...

As tens of thousands crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, ...