Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday signaled that increasing corn imports from the U.S. would be among options ...

OSAKA—The boy character on packaging of the long-selling Bisco biscuit has been redesigned for the first time in 20 years to increase overseas sales. Bisco Boya (Bisco boy) is now shown with ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...

A fish species known as the Great Blue Spotted Mudskipper that inhabits tidal mudflats in the Sea of Ariake in Kyushu has ...

Shopkeepers wait for customers at the main bazaar, a day after the ceasefire between Indian and Pakistan was announced, in ...

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

Waymo LLC, which operates fully autonomous, driverless taxis in the United States, has announced that it would start ...

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

German author Erich Kastner (1899-1974), whose works included children’s literature, secretly kept a diary while resisting ...