A batch of eight matsutake mushrooms grown in this west Japan city fetched 850,000 yen (approx. $5,574) during the first aucti ...

Japan's toy market is getting bigger, even though fewer children are being born. Old toys and characters from the Heisei era (1989-2019) are ...

Japan's weather agency issued a special heavy rain warning for the Izu island chain south of Tokyo on Thursday, cautioning about life ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency on Thursday released the official biography of the wife of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Em ...

Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa and two others won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing porous materials t ...

MILL VALLEY, California (Kyodo) -- A new documentary about baseball connections between the United States and Japan delves into the sport's role across more than a century of history as the ...

Rice grown in dry fields in the first year of trial cultivation has been harvested here recently to the joy of the people involved in the p ...

A university in this southwest Japan city has launched an initiative to provide students with breakfast for just 100 yen (roughly 66 cen ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- SoftBank Group Corp. said Wednesday it will acquire the robotics business of Swiss industrial automation company ABB Ltd. for $5.38 billion by 2026 to beef up its robotics business ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is considering decommissioning some older reactors at its nuclear power plant in Niigata P ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will jointly develop cathode materials for an all-solid-state battery with Sumitomo Metal Mining ...

Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause fighting in Gaza and release at least some hostages and prisoners in an agreement that was pu ...