OSAKA -- Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the ...

Major Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu on Nov. 14 began selling rice produced in Taiwan, which is about 20% cheaper than the ...

Three people jointly filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government on Nov. 13, claiming that they were unfairly restricted ...

Meiji University in Tokyo said Friday it has acquired the land and building of Hilltop Hotel adjacent to its main campus with ...

Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) ...

Five Vietnamese men in Japan have been arrested for allegedly breaking into the home of a fellow citizen in the Chiba ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed Thursday that the two countries ...

Cities in Asia and the United States emit the most heat-trapping gas that feeds climate change, with Shanghai the most pollut ...

From heat waves to torrential rain and forest fires, countries around the world have been hit by serious natural disasters ...

Japan's economy grew an annualized real 0.9 percent in the three months through September, supported by solid consumer ...

A Ferrari seized from a delinquent taxpayer has fetched an online public auction record of 171 million yen ($1.09 million), ...

The party of Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won a two-thirds majority in parliament, ac ...