The Tokyo District Court on Jan. 30 dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of eight part-time lecturers claiming their ...

Rescue personnel continued efforts to clear debris in an expanding sinkhole near Tokyo on Friday in the hope of saving a man ...

TOKYO -- Certain types of whisky are global favorites: Scotch from Scotland, Irish whisky from Ireland, American blends like ...

A government investigation has confirmed that tunnel construction for the shinkansen bullet train line extension to Sapporo ...

Soy sauce containers that are included in boxes of shumai dumplings made by Kiyoken, based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, ...

Apple on Thursday disclosed its iPhone sales dipped slightly during the holiday-season quarter, signaling a sluggish start to ...

NASA's two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost ...

Japan's International Olympic Committee presidential candidate Morinari Watanabe revealed Thursday his idea of changi ...

The number of foreign employees in Japan reached a record 2.3 million as of the end of last October, maintaining a growth ...

Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. are expected to unveil the details of their merger plan in mid-February, company ...

Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group Corp. is considering investing up to $25 billion in OpenAI, the developer of the widely ...

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani on Thursday visited firefighters and paramedics in a community ravaged by the Los ...