Two Asahi Shimbun reporters will accompany the 67th observation team to Antarctica departing from Japan in December.

Japanese students are increasingly heading to Taiwan to study, thanks to expectations of extensive language education, ...

Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the ...

KYOTO--Black kites, a bird of prey, have apparently found an easier target for food in central Kyoto: people eating outdoors.

Torrential rain pounded the Tokyo metropolitan area on Sept. 11, flooding buildings, disrupting transportation services and ...

The justice minister said Japan needs to develop policies to help the growing number of foreign nationals adapt to Japanese ...

Pilot bread, dried cooked rice, cereals and crystal sugar: emergency food provisions tend to bulk up on carbohydrates, the ...

A friend and a foe of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba are seen as the front-runners to succeed the lame-duck leader of the ...

Prince Hisahito visited the imperial graveyard in western Tokyo on Sept. 9 to pay his respects to his royal ancestors ...

A campground has opened beside a dam lake here to offer tourists more to do in this sleepy town than just observe a famous ...

NAGASAKI--Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visited a nursing care facility here on Sept. 13 ...

To boost disaster resilience, convenience store chain Lawson Inc. will equip stores with in-house kitchens to prepare and ...