Wide areas of the Kanto and Chugoku regions were blanketed with snow on the morning of March 19 due to a cold air mass and a ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. A man holds up a Palestinian flag on Jan. 19 ...

Areas in Hokkaido saw some of the sharpest rises in land prices in 2024, thanks largely to foreign visitors who have ...

KOBE—A third-party investigative panel on March 19 concluded that Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito committed power harassment on ...

Scammers based abroad who pose as law enforcement officers are displaying genuine phone numbers of police stations in Japan ...

SEOUL--The U.S. energy department put South Korea on a watchlist because visitors to its laboratories mishandled sensitive ...

Many classical pianists practice tirelessly―even risking injury―to hone advanced techniques, only to reach an impassible ...

The infrastructure ministry has announced a nationwide survey of aging sewer pipe systems following the recent road collapse in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, that created a massive sinkhole.

MORIOKA—Colorful ice-fishing huts in red, yellow and green dot the snow-covered ice on Lake Gandoko here that stretches as far as the eye can see. The lake is located in Morioka’s Yabukawa ...

Robust wage growth continued in this year’s “shunto” spring labor negotiations, as major companies gave favorable responses to pay hike requests from labor unions on March 12. The responses ...

Municipal governments of Tokyo's central wards are taking a variety of measures to encourage foreign visitors to keep the yen flowing after the sun sets. The Tokyo metropolitan government is ...

The next name from Wajima Junior High School's graduating class echoed throughout the Ishikawa Prefecture gymnasium on March 14, but Hanon Kiso did not appear. Instead, only a photo of her was ...