About 1,200 people joined an anti-discrimination march in Kawaguchi, a city near Tokyo where about 8% of residents are ...

Close aides to Saitama Governor Motohiro Ono were surprised by the apparent turnaround in his thinking about the Kurdish ...

This year's cherry blossom forecast calls for an earlier bloom in the North due to above-average temperatures in the spring.

Crime is low but anxiety is rising, fueled by demographics, social media and perception gaps shaping how safety is felt.

Tokyo police have arrested two Vietnamese nationals on suspicion of breaking into a home in central Japan and stealing cash. The arrestees include Ha Ngoc Tu, 26, a resident of the city of Isesaki, ...

Tea ceremony classes in Japan are bearing the brunt of an acute shortage of matcha as a recent global boom in green tea has ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

Since Japan recorded a spike in deadly bear attacks, Koji Suzuki has struggled to keep up with booming demand for grilled ...

The Vietnamese population in Japan has surged ninefold over the past decade, now forming a quarter of the country’s 2.3-million-strong foreign workforce - the largest group.