Renting an apartment under your own name in Japan can feel like a big step, especially if you’re a foreign resident. While many people still live in company or school-arranged housing, most residents ...

Police in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 20-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of of attempting to kidnap an elementary school girl by trying to take her into a toilet in the ...

Floodwaters driven by torrential rains ground life in the Philippine capital to a halt on Tuesday with tens of thousands evacuated from their homes and at least two people believed missing. Schools ...

It’s a hot, sticky summer in Japan this year, and that’s actually a fitting description of pretty much every summer in Japan for the past few generations. But while high temperatures and high humidity ...

Japan's ruling coalition is certain to lose control of the upper house in Sunday's election, public broadcaster NHK reported, an outcome that further weakens Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's grip on ...

Japan's chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said Monday that he will aim for some kind of trade agreement with the United States by Aug 1, a deadline set by President Donald Trump to wrap up ...

You can win all kinds of things from crane games in Japan, from slices of cake to not-so-precious gemstones. So, it’s perhaps only mildly surprising that the National Police Agency issued a warning ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday faced mounting pressure from within his Liberal Democratic Party to step down and take responsibility for the ruling coalition's bruising setback in ...

Over half of Japanese public junior and senior high school students met official English proficiency milestones, but further progress is needed to reach the government's more ambitious targets, a ...

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led ...

When we first moved to Japan and enrolled our child in elementary school, I had no idea about 教職員人事異動 (kyoshokuin jinji ido), the nationwide system of teacher transfers. I expected to get to know the ...