The number of people 65 and older who live alone continues to increase. This demographic is expected to make up more than 20 ...

TOKYO--Japanese technology group SoftBank swung back to profitability in the July-September quarter, boosted by positive ...

OTSU—The centuries-old Otsu Festival, featuring parades of lavishly decorated floats adorned with mechanical puppets, will ...

Local emergency responders are under fire here for wrongfully declaring an elderly man dead while he was still alive and in ...

The Diet on Nov. 11 elected Shigeru Ishiba, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, as the 103rd prime minister of Japan ...

Remember the mini-CD that was all rage in the 1990s when songs that dominated the charts in Japan all seemed to reach ...

A food company is using a “forbidden tactic” in its bid to put its sausages, a traditional breakfast or bento item,” on ...

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) canceled press credentials to the SMBC Japan Series for a TV network that aired World ...

NAGOYA—After a deluge of criticism, the leader of the Conservative Party of Japan retracted his suggestion that subjecting ...

Fruit processor and vendor Dole Japan Inc. refuses to let bananas that are unsellable go to waste. It turns them ...

Search efforts are under way after a crew member of a Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper went missing when the vessel ...

KOBE--Former Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito trails the front-runner in a gubernatorial election called after he left the post ...