Osaka Prefectural Nishinari High School in Osaka's Nishinari Ward -- known for its proximity to the Airin district, home to ...

A nonprofit organization here is supporting children with foreign roots and their families, driven by a desire to help those ...

An ethnic Korean woman living in the city of Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, has filed a criminal complaint with Kanagawa ...

Is Japan Post Co. going to drift back toward being a state-run enterprise with no vision for the future? It is time to ...

The heartbreak was all too familiar for Japan at the World Cup. The country's national team hung in until the very end Monday ...

The criminal court in Thailand on Monday sentenced a 30-year-old woman to seven years and six months in jail for human ...

Japan on Monday established a cross-ministerial, U.S.-style committee to strengthen the country's prescreening of foreign ...

The Osaka High Court has ordered the Japanese government to pay 880,000 yen (roughly $5,440) in damages to a Peruvian man of ...

Clinical trials of transplanting pig kidneys into human patients, or xenotransplantation, are expected to begin as early as ...

A four-car train derailed shortly after leaving Kintetsu Kyoto Station in Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward early on June 29, forcing ...

The yen fell to a roughly 39-year low near 162 versus the U.S. dollar on Monday, supported by market expectations of higher ...

Hibakusha, or A-bomb survivors, in Nagasaki mourned the death of singer and actor Akihiro Miwa, remembering his lifelong ...