Japan has strict gun control laws, making violent crimes rare, but in recent years, the country has seen several high-profile ...

Baseball mania reached fever pitch in Japan on Friday with public appearances of national hero Shohei Ohtani and other ...

The Japanese NIKKEN-V35 mechanized demining machine has proven its ability to neutralize mines and unexploded ordnance ...

Chicago Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki recently took some swings in the batting cage—just not with a bat. In preparation for ...

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy away from challenging authority.

It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a ...

Hundreds of fans at Tokyo's Haneda airport lined up 10 deep and hoping to catch a glimpse of Shohei Ohtani as he arrived in ...

A single berry sells for $19 at a California store. Is it conspicuous consumption or a part of gift-giving culture?

Police in Japan say they have arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a YouTuber while she was livestreaming on a ...

Two Japanese tourists in their 20s were detained for two weeks in China then deported for taking photos showing exposed buttocks at the Great Wall, local media reported.

In an online auction four years ago, Japanese dentist Yusuke Kamimura's father purchased his first piece of Shohei Ohtani ...

For our “Craft Issue” this month, we take a look at the journey that brought Shinpei Kujiraoka of Sushi Azabu out of Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur.