In a nationwide effort to prevent malicious practices by host clubs, the police have issued more than 200 administrative penalties on such establishments for various violations, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
Tourists and residents packed Tokyo's top cherry blossom spots on Thursday to enjoy the full bloom that has arrived in the capital later than usual this year because of cold weather.
Japan's oldest man, 112-year-old Gisaburo Sonobe in the city of Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, has died, officials of the city and the health ministry said Thursday.
Shares in Japanese cosmetics and household products-maker Kao jumped on Thursday after activist investor Oasis Management called on the firm to improve its business, saying the stock has the potential to rise by more than 70% from recent levels.
Nearly six months into the Gaza war, with the families of hostages still held captive by Hamas desperate for their release, many former hostages are finding the words to describe the ordeal of captivity.
The Yokohama branch of the Kanagawa labor office has approved a worker's compensation claim filed by a woman working from home for having developed a mental disorder due to working long overtime hours, her lawyers said Wednesday.
The Bank of Japan is likely to wait until fall before mulling whether to raise interest rates again after successfully negotiating the tricky task of backing away from its massive stimulus program, according to a former policy board member.
One of global warming’s more colorful dangers is the possibility that melting permafrost will revive prehistoric diseases and trigger horrific pandemics. But the more immediate candidates for a disastrous, climate-fueled comeback are newer and man-made.
Some 80% of crime victims in Japan have not received damages from perpetrators or state benefits, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday.
With Walt Disney’s monthslong proxy war with activist investor Nelson Peltz in the rear-view mirror, attention is refocused on finding CEO Bob Iger’s successor.
Invisible, omnipresent "forever chemicals" have been linked to a wide range of serious effects on human health, prompting growing calls for them to be banned.
Nearly two weeks have passed since Kobayashi Pharmaceutical first reported health concerns over its beni kōji red yeast rice supplements — but tracking down its tainted products in the supply chain is proving to be extremely difficult.
Japan faces the possibility of being hit by a severe shortage of donated blood, due to a decrease in young donors.
Viewers around the world are tuning in weekly to the hit FX series “Shogun” (based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell) to follow the adventures of John Blackthorne, an Englishman who arrives in 17th-century Japan at a moment of high drama.
Apple has teams investigating a push into personal robotics, a field with the potential to become one of the company’s ever-shifting "next big things,” according to people familiar with the situation.
The Kyoto Prefectural Police arrested a municipal government employee of Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Wednesday on suspicion of impeding Nintendo’s business operations by sending death threats.
Two veteran Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers belonging to the faction once led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received an official recommendation Thursday to leave the party, as it scrambles to reach an internal resolution to a recent slush-fund scandal.
A staunch friend of Taiwan will take over this summer as the top U.S. diplomat in Taipei, three sources briefed on the matter have said, roughly coinciding with the island's new president taking office at a time of rising tensions with China.
Texas officials reported on Monday that a farm worker tested positive for H5N1, or bird flu, that has spread to dairy cows in the U.S. state as well as Kansas, New Mexico, Michigan and Idaho — the first time the virus has infected cattle.
Japan’s first interest rate hike in 17 years has failed to deliver the boost to the yen that policymakers had hoped for, with strategists pointing to four key reasons for the currency to remain weak for now.
Defense and economic cooperation between the United States, Japan and the Philippines is expected to increase following their first-ever trilateral leaders’ summit next week in Washington, Manila's envoy to Tokyo said in an interview.
A coalition led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party could win nearly three quarters of the parliamentary seats in elections starting this month, according to a survey, while seats won by the main opposition Congress party could hit a record low.
President Joe Biden’s balancing act with Israel became increasingly difficult this week with the country’s deadly attack on an aid convoy in the Gaza Strip and an airstrike on Iran’s embassy compound in Damascus.
Citigroup is betting that Japan’s bond market revival will gather steam, drawing talent back and rewarding the Wall Street lender’s push to expand its debt business after the central bank scrapped negative interest rates.
Japan and the United States are set to discuss the launch of a new project for the joint production of defense equipment at an upcoming summit meeting, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said Wednesday.
