TOKYO--Nintendo’s profits tumbled as sales of its Switch console lost momentum, prompting the Japanese video-game maker to ...

NAGOYA--An N700A series bullet train featuring Disney characters will start operation on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line on Feb.

SEOUL--A South Korean appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling that acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee ...

The imperial family, like so many families, has its fair share of problems. But in this case, its very survival in its ...

SEOUL--South Korea aims to rebuild its aviation safety system from scratch, the transport ministry said on Tuesday, launching a new committee to improve air travel in the country that suffered two ...

As the strongest cold front of the winter moves into the skies over Japan, widespread heavy snowfall is predicted for regions ...

TOKYO--The conviction of a former American Nissan executive on charges of helping fugitive former Chairman Carlos Ghosn hide income was upheld by a Japanese appeals court Tuesday, which also rejected ...

The Diet's debate over making high school tuition free around the country is intensifying as the amounts and requirements to ...

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

Patients are voicing concerns as the government considers raising the monthly out-of-pocket cap on burgeoning medical ...

Neighboring municipalities have grown irate over a surprise plan to build an interim storage facility here for spent nuclear ...

Ogre-like figures with wild horns, colorful faces and toothy maws walked from home to home, warding ill fortune away from ...