A northern city plans to promote Niigata Prefecture’s many local specialties--including its snow--at the Osaka Kansai Expo ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission issued a cease-and-desist order to Google LLC on April 15 to stop forcing smartphone manufacturers to pre-install only its Google Search app.

Asian benchmarks mostly rose Tuesday, echoing a rally on Wall Street after President Donald Trump relaxed some of his tariffs, for now at least, and as stress from within the U.S. bond market seemed ...

KYOTO—Kyoto University Hospital officials announced on April 14 that a research team conducted a clinical trial in February to transplant lab-grown pancreatic islets into a woman in her 40s who has ...

KYOTO—A graduate student at the Tokyo University of the Arts has been selected to play the heroine of this year’s Aoi Festival, one of the three major festivals of Kyoto, held on May 15 annually.

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

"Niseko is too expensive" is a sentiment propagated by more than a few news articles and TV programs that zeroed in on soaring commodity prices against the backdrop of a weak yen, all accompanied by ...

Japan Post Co. will begin offering weekend services at select post offices in tourist areas while reducing opening hours on weekdays, starting in June.

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty ...

WAKAYAMA—Shuhei Kishimoto, the governor of Wakayama Prefecture, died of septic shock on April 15, a day after his secretary found him unconscious at his residence, the prefectural government said.

NAGOYA—Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) plans to add luxurious, semi-private seating areas to the Tokaido Shinkansen by ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday his country does not plan to make big concessions and won't rush to reach a deal in upcoming tariff negotiations with U.S. President Donald ...