As the winter chill sets in, the production of traditional “washi” paper is in full swing at a historic workshop here.

TOKYO--Hey Shohei Ohtani, where is the fancy Porsche you hinted at giving your manager Dave Roberts if the Los Angeles ...

A total of 17,412 new condominiums priced at 100 million yen ($654,000) and up were sold during the five-year period from ...

A bento vending machine that has operated for at least 52 years in a tranquil countryside of Ibaraki Prefecture is drawing ...

KUMAMOTO--The iconic scramble crossing in front of Tokyo's Shibuya Station is touted as the world's busiest pedestrian ...

Chinese people’s perceptions of Japan have sharply declined, possibly due to a rising reliance on social media for ...

OSAKA—An eviction order was carried out in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, the largest town for day laborers in Japan, eliciting ...

MINAMI-BOSO, Chiba Prefecture--A soft-serve milk ice cream topped with generous slices of raw whale meat. Anyone? Hanamaru ...

The operator of the Harry Potter theme park in Tokyo is recalling replicas of the Godric Gryffindor Sword because possessing ...

The Godzilla scarecrow was recognized by Guinness World Records as the “largest straw sculpture (supported) of a fictional ...

KYOTO--Unseasonably high temperatures are playing havoc with the autumn foliage season that draws hordes of visitors to Kyoto ...

The hope here is that badly behaved foreign tourists have learned their lesson and there will be no need to block views of ...