Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

OSAKA—A ceiling collapse during firefighting efforts at the Aug. 18 blaze in the downtown Dotonbori district apparently ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

OSAKA—Visitors stranded in the sweltering heat at the Osaka Kansai Expo venue lashed out at organizers, saying they failed to ...

MANILA–Two suspects have been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of two Japanese tourists here, local ...

BEIJING--The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and ...

An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been ...

MANILA--Two Japanese men shot to death in the Philippines' capital here were targeted by a Japanese acquaintance who staged ...

The word “remorse” appeared for the first time in 13 years in the prime minister’s address at an annual memorial service to ...

A minicar covered in graffiti, a weather beaten sports car looking naked without tires and an automobile that appears to have ...

A historical novel published privately by a distant descendant of the Koka ninja clan has proved to be an unexpected hit ...