This farming town of around 9,300 people has learned it needs financial help to accommodate the 2 million tourists who flood ...

More than 20% of 65-year-old residents and older will be living in a single-person household in 2050 across Japan — with the exception of Yamagata Prefecture — as a result of rapid ...

When Actors’ Playhouse opens the curtain on its production of “tick, tick…Boom!” there are many behind-the-scenes stories ...

According to Kagoshima Prefectural Police's Kagoshima Chuo Police Station, a car driven by an 84-year-old woman ran out of control when making a right turn, hitting four people in their 20s to 40s.

American tourist Steve Hayes was arrested on Wednesday ‘on suspicion of damaging property’ at the Meiji Jingu shrine ...

Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions ...

Deer, accustomed to humans, are becoming aggressive due to more visitors. Authorities urge caution and are taking protective ...

It’s always awkward telling people what I do for a living. I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the ...

Steven Lee Hayes, 65, is accused of carving his family's name into the gate of a famed Tokyo shrine, say police.

Princess Yuriko of Japan, who was the oldest member of the Japanese Imperial Family, has died at 101 years old. Princess ...

Climate change is contributing to record numbers of people globally being uprooted from their homes, while worsening the often already "hellish" conditions of displacement, the United Nations said ...