KYOTO—The World Heritage Ninnaji temple here is offering a stunning illumination event this autumn, with its national ...

OSAKA—As Osaka prepares to host the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo, local authorities and businesses are stepping up efforts to ...

Support for constitutional amendment among newly elected Lower House members has dropped to 67 percent, the lowest level ...

The approval rate of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Cabinet plummeted after the Lower House election, but more than 60 ...

KOBE—An artisanal soap shop here is catering to its loyal customers throughout the country with handmade products, crafted ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its daily trading hours by a half-hour for the first extension in 70 years to better deal ...

YOKOHAMA—The Yokohama DeNA BayStars completed a remarkable playoff run by trouncing the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 11-2 on Nov. 3 ...

Residents here are voting online to determine the retirement allowance for the city mayor, who asked the public to decide how ...

Mizuma Railway is operating a “digital art” train until Dec. 1 that treats passengers to projection mapping during the ...

TOTTORI--Cyclists can now board trains on the JR Sanin Line with their unbagged and unfolded bicycles for journeys between ...

The debate over the Category 3 system of the National Pension, a public pension system all people with an address in Japan ...

The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant said it retrieved a tiny amount of melted fuel from one of ...