There is a classical piece that 98-year-old pianist Reiko Kinashi has played since before World War II — Schumann’s ...

A reduction to 15% of a tariff on imported Japanese automobiles could take effect around 50 days after a bilateral agreement ...

Six employees responsible for in-car service on the Train Suite Shiki-shima luxury sleeper train frequently drank alcohol ...

OSAKA — Osaka Prefectural Police on Wednesday began searching the house of the representative of Iroha Kensetsu, an Osaka ...

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited South Korea from Saturday to Monday on his first ...

The British Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier made a port call at the U.S. Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa ...

A sand and gravel carrier collided with a yacht off Tsukumi, Oita Prefecture, according to a report to the Saiki coast guard ...

European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically ...

Two confirmed dead in Kumamoto Prefecture, and four people were reported missing in Fukuoka and Kumamoto Prefectures as a ...

President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and updated him on planned talks the Russian ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average rose above 43,000 for the first time on Wednesday, with the broader Topix index also marking a ...

The potato is one of the world’s food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...