The police chief of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan has made a rare comment about a rumor on social media that a former prefectural assembly member was facing arrest. He called the information ...

Japan's medical institutions dealing with emergency patients are struggling with the spread of influenza as their beds are often filled to capacity.

Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous ...

Nintendo's average annual salary may have dropped by 2.3 percent in 2024, but it's still the second-highest-paying ...

How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real ...

If Shōgun season 2 is a direct continuation of the story told in its forebear (more on this shortly), there are other ...

The dollar has drifted lower and stocks are cautiously positive as investors await an expected flurry of policy announcements ...

Bollywood star Bhumi Pednekar is heading to the Swiss Alps, tapped as India’s Young Global Leader (YGL) representative at the ...

Andrew Jackson, head of Japanese equity strategy at Ortus Advisors, discusses the Bank of Japan's upcoming interest rate ...

I think it is undoubtedly the case that the U.S. needs to assert control over who enters and lives and works in this country, ...

Errors and anomalies do not stop at individual cases; they permeate extreme-age research.

Prime Video has named Keisuke Oishi as its new country manager for Japan, effective Jan. 20. The veteran Amazon executive, ...