The number of babies born in Japan in 2024 is expected to be only about 690,000, according to one expert's recent estimate, ...

A record 7,119 teachers at public elementary, junior high, senior high and special needs schools across Japan took a leave of ...

Japan is set to introduce a system to temporarily place factories under state control in the event of a contingency to ...

The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, began talks in Beijing on Wednesday, as the two ...

Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war i ...

The fire department in this northeastern Japan city is warning people, especially the elderly, to be cautious of hypothermia ...

Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family's ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday expressed his willingness to meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ...

Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said receiving a Nobel Peace Prize has given them a fresh ...

TOKYO -- Only about 20% of people in Japan prepare "emergency toilets" that can be used without water, despite the fact that ...

Sake brewer Mie Takahashi stirs mixture of steamed rice with koji mold and water in a tank at her Koten sake brewery in Okaya ...