Visitors from outside Japan are participating in a verification test using a touchless fingerprint authentication system at ...

Independent watchmaker Jiro Katayama always thought he would spend his days working alone on a shoestring budget in his ...

Japan's Seven & i Holdings, operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, has picked Bain Capital as its preferred buyer for a stake of its non-core assets, local media reported on Saturday.

The ruling coalition and opposition Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) agreed to education and social welfare policies ...

More than 200 death certificates were issued under the name of a doctor with dementia at a hospital here, where officials are ...

Morinari Watanabe, the Japanese head of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), is vying to be selected as the first ...

Parents in Japan often try to give their offspring a leg up by ensuring they learn early on how to use the abacus.

Trust in the electoral system that underpins democracy could be seriously undermined if campaigns are marred by activities ...

Some Uber Eats delivery drivers in Japan are deliberately rejecting job requests to gamble on a chance of winning a jackpot ...

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding posted its fastest revenue growth in more than a year, beating analyst ...

BANGKOK--An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centers in eastern Myanmar began ...

Panamanian authorities said they recaptured a woman who had escaped confinement from a Panama hotel where she and nearly 300 ...