The number of women's toilets installed at Japan's train stations is only about 60% the total of men's, according to sample ...

An executive committee that spent over a decade advocating for war-renouncing Article 9 of Japan's Constitution to be ...

A volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, erupted early Sunday morning, sending a plume of ash and ...

A bear entered a shopping mall of retail giant Aeon Co. in Akita Prefecture on Sunday, prompting staff to barricade the ...

OSAKA -- "I shouldn't have agreed so easily," a man said as he expressed regret about his owner contracts with major Japanese convenience store chain Ministop after operating six stores in Osaka ...

By Damian Flanagan The other day I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting presentation about antique books by an ...

The Chinese government on Sunday urged its citizens to carefully reconsider studying in Japan, citing what it described as an ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nearly half of full-time workers in their 20s in Japan engage in "oshi-katsu" activities in support of their ...

A woman in her 40s was stabbed by a man in central Tokyo's Akasaka district on Sunday, police said, adding that the suspected ...

Pet dogs are living longer than ever thanks to improved care, but with more pooches pushing past 10 years of age, there has ...

A former prime minister who heads the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on Saturday called for the ...

One in four major companies in Japan have had cases where they failed to reasonably accommodate employees with disabilities, ...