Two forest fires in northern Japan's Iwate Prefecture burned into a fourth day on Saturday as ground and aerial firefighting ...

MGA (outside Japan, Mrs. GREEN APPLE goes by MGA) stood out as the only Japanese act to appear on the IFPI's Global Artist Chart, landing at No. 13.

Japan's Immigration Services Agency tightened pre-arrival screenings from April 1 for foreigners moving to the country on ...

Japan has one of the world's longest-lived populations, attributed to its diet, healthcare system and a lifestyle that ...

Survivors and families of the victims of a 2005 train derailment remembered Saturday the 107 lives lost in the accident in ...

First built 1,300 years ago, Ise Jingu Shrine has just entered its rebuilding cycle, considered a once-in-a-generation ritual ...

The number of bathhouses has already fallen to about a twelfth of its peak nearly 60 years ago. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Japan on Friday quickly approved a U.S. request for shipment of surface-to-air Patriot guided missiles produced in Japan ...

No one doubts the nation has the skill. What it needs now is the will, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.

Two forest fires continued to spread toward residential areas in a northern Japanese town on Friday, prompting authorities to ...

An international trade economist in Washington warns that negotiations will take place in an “incredibly difficult” ...

Host Mariko Oi is joined by former BBC Japan correspondent Ruper Wingfield-Hayes and Asia Specific journalist Derek Cai. This episode was recorded on 22 April. You can hear a BBC World Service drama ...