Japan's decision to make high school tuition virtually free, even for private institutions, is raising alarm among educators ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit off small islands in southwestern Japan on Thursday, after over 1,000 ...

Residents on southwestern Japan's Akuseki Island are facing difficult decisions over whether to evacuate as earthquakes ...

A Hong Kong museum dedicated to martial arts legend Bruce Lee set up by his fans shut its doors earlier this week, citing ...

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Sohei Kamiya, leader of the populist minor opposition Sanseito party, has courted controversy ahead of Japan's House of ...

Many Japanese rice traders expected in June that prices of the staple food would drop over the next three months, data from a ...

A Japanese diplomat is creating abstract art using sand from Israel and the Palestinian territories as symbols of prayers for ...

Titled "Oshikatsu -- Merch Collection Expo," the event, the only one of its kind in Japan, is showcasing K-pop "oshikatsu" ...

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Japan's household spending rose a real 4.7 percent in May from a year earlier, marking the first rise in two months and the ...