NAGANO—Okinawa Prefecture once boasted the longest life expectancy in the country, but it has now dropped well out of the top ...

The seemingly innocuous alligator weed, or Alternanthera philoxeroides, poses a real problem, especially to rice farmers.

With Japan's rapidly aging population putting mounting pressure on medical and nursing care systems, local governments are ...

Trade industry sources said customs clearance for sake items in China doubled in some cases. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Lately a diplomatic spat with China has begun depressing the number of people coming to Japan from that country—but even this does not seem to have much deterred Japan’s leaders from their course.

A Vision 60 robodog operates alongside Japan Ground Self-Defense Force troops at Narashino Training Area outside Tokyo, Jan.

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China-bound exports of Japanese sake and food items have been delayed amid an escalating diplomatic row ...

The biggest demographic shifts taking place in Japan are the country’s aging population and the surge in the number of foreign residents, and there are actually a few age-related quirks involved in ...

Japan has become the latest and biggest non-European country to associate to the EU’s €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research ...

The suspects allegedly exchanged 79 counterfeit coins at three branches of two banks between mid-May and early June last year ...

Tokyo police have arrested four suspects, including a Chinese national, for allegedly exchanging counterfeit commemorative 10,000-yen silver coins at financial institutions in at least seven of ...