The University of Tokyo will establish its first new faculty in nearly 70 years to significantly increase foreign student enrollment.

Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton is not used to aiming lower. But he may need to as he adjusts to his first season with ...

Back when smartphones and email messaging were still unheard of, there was a story that Tsuyoshi Mori (1928-2010), a ...

Tourists could enjoy the rare view of the lake in the No. 1 crater of Mount Nakadake in the Aso volcano complex here turned ...

Disgraced celebrity Masahiro Nakai sexually assaulted a former announcer at Fuji Television Network Inc. in a “work-related” ...

Shohei Ohtani met the moment again, and his latest theatrics have the Los Angeles Dodgers perfect to start the season.

The Rikyugura sake brewery is looking to the future as it taps into the thriving Japanese whisky market and opened Senshu ...

An excruciating five-minute wait prompted Manami Momose to embark on a multiyear research project concerning “toilet disparity” at public restrooms.

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

BANGKOK—The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to over 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies ...

A Japanese national may have been among hundreds of people who were inside an apartment building when it collapsed in the ...

As the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix roars off at Suzuka Circuit here on April 4, a local Italian restaurant is buzzing with ...