KYOTO—The character for “kuma” (bear) is the kanji of the year, a not unexpected choice that narrowly edged out the character ...

The government will dispatch civilians to work in an international body tasked with providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza ...

With rice prices still high, moves to promote soba, barley and pasta have spread across the restaurant and supermarket ...

Google LLC is seeking to expedite scientific and medical studies by partnering with Japanese universities and offering the ...

China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, with President Xi Jinping not attending, ...

The Bank of Japan will likely maintain a pledge next week to keep raising interest rates, but stress the pace of further ...

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to roll out a high-performance sports car that can hit a top speed of 320 kph around 2027, which can ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking leap in identifying a set of gilt‑bronze armor fittings adorned with an intricate ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his U.S counterpart, Pete Hegseth, held telephone talks on “increasingly ...

The day three “grim reapers” of the train world will join their brethren in the scrapyard is fast approaching after decades ...

Aftershocks continued into the morning of Dec. 9 following a magnitude-7.5 earthquake that struck off Aomori Prefecture, ...

China’s exports returned to growth in November following an unexpected contraction the month before, although shipments to ...