The inaugural Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremonies will be held on May 21 and 22, with hopes it will gain the prestige of the U.S. Grammys and propel Japanese artists toward international stardom.

Mio Ikeda stumbled across a future hit product when she discovered “firm tofu” at U.S. supermarkets in 2018 soon after she joined tofu maker Asahico as the company's marketing chief.

flashing through bare trees jay’s blue--Marshall Hryciuk (Toronto, Ontario)

Spring roses are now in full bloom at Kyu-Furukawa Gardens park, which is famed for its stone Western-style building, in Tokyo's Kita Ward.

HIROSHIMA—Hiroshima city on May 15 decided to notify Taiwan about the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, breaking with its protocol of only inviting nations with which Japan has diplomatic relations,...

What does it truly mean to be poor? Or perhaps the more pressing question is this: What does it mean to be rich?

NAGASAKI—Eighty years after the atomic bomb destroyed one of the bells at Urakami Cathedral here, the pair will ring again thanks to the grandson of a doctor who worked on the Manhattan Project and...

REYKJAVIK—How can Iceland, a Nordic island nation, continue to be “the most gender-equal country in the world”?

The Upper House passed a bill introducing an active cyberdefense allowing the central government to collect communications data and ward off cyberattacks at a plenary session on May 16.

YAMAGATA—A man from Fukushima who is accused of helping a string of people kill themselves was rearrested on May 13 in connection with the death of another young person.

SAN FRANCISCO—Pushed by a strict but empathetic professor, the drummer of popular rock band Radwimps plans to restart his musical career that was derailed by a neurological disease.

TOKUSHIMA—To alleviate a nationwide driver shortage, a major driving school operator here is opening a road to Vietnam to supply a pool of foreign drivers to fill the openings.

Once upon a time, it was an established Friday evening custom for young Arabs in the Old City of Jerusalem to visit the homes of their Jewish neighbors and light their lamps for them.

Leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided against including a consumption tax cut as a campaign pledge for the Upper House election this summer, overriding calls from within the coalit...

Japan Display Inc. plans to lay off more than 1,000 employees in Japan as the once-ballyhooed manufacturer continues to suffer financial losses, sources said May 14.

Crew of an Air Self-Defense Force jet believed to have crashed in a pond in Aichi Prefecture on May 14 did not report abnormalities or eject from the aircraft, Defense Ministry sources said.

Previously classified personnel rosters of lesser-known wartime bacteriological units deployed in China, hidden since the end of World War II, have been released, which will help researchers better...

Four Vietnamese men and women and a Japanese owner of a convenience store were arrested on suspicion of illegally purchasing cigarettes through stolen credit cards, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police...

A Studio Ghibli movie is finally coming to a streaming service in Japan, but it's not one of the heartwarming titles most often associated with the studio's image. 

NAHA–Things are looking up for Okinawa's economy thanks to surging tourism as the prefecture marks its 53rd anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, after 27 years of post-war rule by the United...