The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

WASHINGTON--Japan and the United States failed to find common ground in their fifth round of talks on Washington’s high ...

When Masaya Kobayashi moved to Tokyo after graduating from a college in Kanazawa, he thought about renting an apartment at ...

Rice shortages are pushing food banks to the brink of closure and threatening to hurt the most needy in society.

OSAKA--Each day during the six-month run of the Osaka Kansai Expo, Daisaku Yoshimura plans to put on a "kamishibai" picture ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s high tariffs levied on imports are tossing the world around and leading to irreversible global ...

Yumiko Shiragaki, a 65-year-old Fukuoka resident, spoke haltingly about losing her husband to an illness about 30 years ago.

Two diametrically opposed court rulings have been handed down concerning accountability for the 2011 nuclear disaster. How ...

The Japan Sumo Association launched a new era in the sport on May 28, making Onosato's promotion official to the highest rank ...

In the battle for financial survival, some sumo stables are inviting overseas groups of tourists to watch their morning ...

WASHINGTON--The U.S. declined to label China a currency manipulator in a new Treasury report released Thursday but accuses ...

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo's Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...