This year marks the 30th anniversary of the QR Code, the ubiquitous scanning tag developed by a Japanese engineer that is ...

KYOTO—Kodaiji temple in Higashiyama Ward here held a test run of an out of this world light show on Oct. 23 ahead of its ...

The temperature hit 25.1 degrees in central Tokyo on Oct. 24, marking the 153rd day--and perhaps the last--of the year when ...

Officials in Hong Kong said Wednesday they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, ...

A Japanese Paralympic judoka on Aug. 26 was hit by a self-driving vehicle inside the athletes’ village, suffering injuries ...

While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food ...

Tokyo police on Oct. 24 arrested two foreign nationals for illegally purchasing Shinkansen tickets by misusing a reservation ...

A portion of Japan’s foreign aid has failed to achieve its intended goals, with utilization rates falling significantly short ...

Taisei Hikage is fighting a losing battle at his Tokyo ramen shop - not to attract customers, but to keep a lid on the price ...

Japan’s political parties are promising to raise the minimum wage, a step that may win votes in Sunday’s general election but ...

Although the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has withheld official endorsements from scandal-hit politicians in the Lower ...

A new service called Pride Vision allows voters to ascertain the views of candidates in the upcoming Lower House election on ...