The climbing season on Mount Fuji kicked off on July 1 with the opening of the Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.

A woman’s romantic affair lasted for only eight months, but it gave her plenty of international travel, opportunities to meet ...

KOFU--A man who killed the parents of a girl who had spurned him when he was 19 became the first person sentenced to death ...

KYOTO—A made-in-Japan humanoid that’s part of a project to help the country make up for lost ground in android development ...

A record 98.1 percent of students who graduated from university this spring had received job offers as of the April 1 start ...

Japan’s population shrank by 0.7 percent in 2023, although the net loss of 861,237 included a record high inflow of 329,535 ...

A cap on overtime hours for truck drivers went into effect on April 1, raising concerns of future disruptions to logistics and the possibility of eventually becoming impossible to transport some goods ...

This mountain city is known as the training site for Aoyama Gakuin University, a powerhouse in the annual New Year’s Hakone ...

A Tokyo-listed, fast-growing artificial intelligence firm is under investigation for allegedly inflating its sales figures ...

The industry ministry plans to allow utilities to build new nuclear reactors on condition they decommission the same number ...

The Tokyo District Court on May 19 ordered a man to pay 1.29 million yen ($11,800) for defaming reality TV star Hana Kimura ...

For decades, humble signs hand-cut from industrial tape have guided millions of commuters through the labyrinth of Tokyo’s ...