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.

When thinking about how to accept the estimated numbers, there is a need to calmly assess the situation to come up with ...

A widespread system failure across central Japan is ongoing after knocking out electronic toll collection (ETC) booths on ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. “The forest is the lover of the sea.” Few ...

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

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 ...

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 ...