A medical transport helicopter carrying a patient fell into the sea in southwestern Japan Sunday, leaving three of the six people aboard dead, the Japan Coast Guard said.

BANGKOK--Asian shares nosedived on Monday after the meltdown Friday on Wall Street over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff ...

Ten years after the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line opened its Nagano-Kanazawa extension, sightseeing spots along the line are ...

KANAZAWA–Sanae Tokita is among a new wave of young crafts artists making a significant impact here and in the wider Ishikawa ...

OSAKA--The grounds of the Japan Mint in Osaka’s Kita Ward opened to the public on April 5 in an annual event to show off the ...

South Korean makeup and skincare brands may have dethroned France as Japan’s top cosmetics importer for the first time in ...

Tokyo and Washington went to great pains in 1996 to conceal the existence of a CIA office in Tokyo, saying that the news ...

A Wagyu beef producer and seller here is rapidly expanding its exports to the Islamic world, attracting considerable ...

A rising number of people who were abused by their parents as children are now struggling to care for them in their old age ...

World champion Max Verstappen banished his early season misery with a fourth successive pole-to-flag victory at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, holding off the previously dominant McLarens with ...

Precision equipment manufacturer Shimadzu Corp. said it has created the world’s most accurate time device: a clock that won’t ...

As Japan plans additional economic measures, including a possible supplementary budget, to soften the impact of new U.S. tariffs, negotiators continue their struggle to dig out the meaning behind ...