In Tokyo's Asakusa area, the Matsuchiyama Shoden temple is dedicated to Kangiten, the Japanese version of Lord Ganesha. This ...

Sapana Kharel’s daughter, Saurya was born in Japan. She came to Nepal when she was six to study in Nepal. Soon after, she ...

The Fed's newest iteration of the dot plot has a median projection of 50 bp this year, while the market has nearly 75 bp ...

Japan could boost the share of renewable energy in its electricity production to 80 percent by fiscal 2035 by expanding the use of storage batteries and enhancing regional power grid cooperation, a ...

On September 18, a Chinese aircraft carrier sailed closer to Japan than ever before, prompting Tokyo to express serious concerns to Beijing about China's increasing military activity in the region The ...

The bento box has taken on many forms, one of which is the ekiben, which was born alongside one of Japan's cultural icons - ...

The woodblocks of a massive trove of precious documents compiled by an Edo-period (1603-1867) scholar have been preserved in ...

Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa prefecture, says his personal story is deeply entwined with the U.S. military’s presence on ...

Shigeru Ishiba, a former Japanese defence minister and leading candidate in the ruling party's leadership race, said there ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the highest level of heavy rain across several cities in the Ishikawa prefecture, ...

Record rains in central Japan's Noto region, still recovering from a major New Year's Day earthquake, killed at least one ...

At least one person was killed and several others missing after torrential rains caused flooding in a northern Japan coastal ...