The Velvet House, a unique cafe here, is drawing visitors from all over Japan with its slogan “a queer feminist cafe for all.

NAGASAKI--Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki called for an immediate ceasefire in military conflicts around the world during a ...

This sounds unusual: 10 cylindrical chambers have been built on a former rice terrace in the depths of the Kii Peninsula.

Fisherman Motoharu Kase’s three children were playing in the garden of their home in Rausu, eastern Hokkaido, oblivious to ...

NAHA—The exterior of Shuri-jo Castle's main hall stands reborn once more with reconstruction complete and reporters visiting ...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration imposed an additional 15 percent tariff on all Japanese imports on Aug. 7, denying an ...

In the fall of 1945, an American priest named George Zabelka found himself lost in thought as he wandered through the ...

The Cabinet Office has revised its guidelines on how companies and local governments should respond to emergency information ...

This is part of a series on hibakusha who responded to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun, The Chugoku Shimbun and The Nagasaki ...

Japan sweltered in dangerously high temperatures on Aug. 5, with thermometers in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, marking the ...

A Japanese Air Self-Defense Force F2 fighter jet crashed off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan during a ...

On July 21, the day after the pivotal Upper House election, a fervent crowd surged in front of Tokyo’s JR Shinbashi Station to hear the Sanseito party leader take a victory lap.