And a visit to Japan for the best skincare and makeup goods should be on everyone's wishlist. Good thing you don’t always need a passport to indulge in the best Japanese formulas, especially ...

The downpour drenched the Noto Peninsula on Saturday, triggering landslides and washing away people and homes, Japan’s national broadcaster said. By Yan Zhuang and Miharu Nishiyama Six people ...

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Travelers may be able to get both at a new coastal retreat in the works outside Tokyo, the Japanese capital. Anton Wormann, 31, who is originally from Sweden, relocated to Japan in 2018 after ...

One person is dead and seven others are missing in Noto Peninsula, Japanese news media reported. The region is still recovering from a catastrophic earthquake. By Yan Zhuang Record rainfall in ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election A 10-year-old schoolboy from Japan was fatally stabbed ...

Mr Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka district court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in post-war Japan. Presiding judge Koshi Kunii said that the ...

Iwao Hakamada worked at a soybean processing plant owned by the victim. A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, closing a nearly six ...

TOKYO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A Japanese man said to have spent the world's longest time on death row was acquitted of murder on Thursday, his legal team said, ending his family's search for justice ...

Record rainfall has brought deadly flooding and landslides to a coastal region of Japan still recovering from a devastating New Year’s Day earthquake. Japan’s weather agency issued its highest ...

Japan erupted in cheers on Friday morning after national hero Shohei Ohtani blasted his way into Major League Baseball history as the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season.

So why was this 59 year-old bureaucrat's schedule so punishing? Until the end of July, he was Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs, the country's top currency diplomat ...