KYOTO—Tairyu-Sanso Garden here, a government-designated site of scenic beauty that was once closed to the public, is now ...

A Chinese state-owned enterprise is believed to have offered funding to a Japanese executive in 2019 when the central ...

The No. 1 reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, which is the oldest operating nuclear ...

OSAKA—The Osaka municipal government will start to ban smoking on all public streeets across the city on Jan. 27 next year, ...

Three organizations, including the Japan Actors Union, called on the public to not use artificial intelligence for foreign ...

The New Year’s Eve countdown event at Shibuya’s scramble crossing, a hugely popular tourist spot in Tokyo, has been canceled ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia--Several international airlines canceled flights to and from Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali on ...

The CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. expressed high hopes for Japan’s role in the artificial intelligence ...

The steam of miso soup comforts me at this time of year. I received my miso from my friend Masami Horie in Shiga Prefecture, ...

A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

BANGKOK--In case you can’t get enough of the little pygmy hippo Moo Deng from Thailand, there's now an official song ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has made many countries anxious and recalculating where they stand with the U.S., ...