A teacher making fun of a student with stutter was part of the reason why classmates started bulling the student, a recently ...

Major convenience store chains FamilyMart, Lawson and 7-Eleven are set to begin selling reserve rice released by the Japanese ...

Fuji Media Holdings Inc. said Thursday it will pursue legal action against two former top officials of its television network ...

Traditionally crafted "mizu-uchiwa" fans, distinguished by their glossy luster and waterlike translucence, are seen at the ...

Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea's progressive Democratic Party, the main opposition party, has won the country's ...

Two major convenience store chains in Japan began selling government-released stockpiled rice at select stores in Tokyo and ...

The northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has seen a series of earthquakes registering 4 on Japan's 7-point seismic intensity ...

The government on Thursday notified Japan Post Co. of its plan to revoke the company's license to operate some 2,500 of its ...

The Ritsumeikan Trust based here announced on June 3 that its affiliated universities will accept up to 100 international ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko paid their respects Thursday in Okinawa to victims ...

Very hot summers in Japan are changing famous summer events. Some festivals now happen in spring or autumn because of extreme ...

Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., which sold supplements suspected to have been linked to dozens of deaths, will ...