Around 70% of seniors in Japan believe they can work past their 80th birthday, a survey by a Tokyo-based apartment management ...

Some 60% of Japanese people do not read even one book in a given month, the first time that has been true for a majority of ...

The prefectural government here has launched suicide prevention patrols with speaker- and infrared camera-equipped drone ...

Host country favorite Kei Nishikori's remarkable run at the Japan Open tennis tournament came to a halt at the hands of ...

Teruaki Sato's two-out, two-run triple capped a five-run seventh inning as the Hanshin Tigers came from behind to beat t ...

TOKYO -- A "Zombie Shinkansen," which will turn a carriage on a Tokaido Nozomi bullet train into a haunted house, will depart ...

Typhoon Jebi is expected to affect eastern Japan, where Tokyo is located, in the next couple of days as the 17th one of the ...

It's often said there is a thin line between love and hate, but is it OK to sometimes hate your long-term partner? If you ask ...

OSAKA -- "I feel sorry for you not having siblings" "So, you're selfish" "You must have been spoiled": These are phrases that ...

The striking red domed roof of a former kindergarten here completed in 1922 marks the building out as a rare design for a ...

Eiko Araki, a master of the traditional Japanese craft of Sanuki Kagari Temari, talks to The Associated Press at her studio ...

Time seems to stop here. Women sit in a small circle, quietly, painstakingly stitching patterns on balls the size of an or ...