Innovative, homeless 43-year-old with huge gambling debts randomly stops strangers and compliments them in return for money.

A 47-year-old woman somehow managed to cause eight traffic accidents in the span of 35 minutes between 7 a.m. and 7:35 a.m. on January 19 in Osaka. To clarify, this isn’t like a single crash that ...

Here’s how it works. The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds.

Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.

A man recently died after falling from a shopping center in the heart of the Japanese capital, in the process injuring a man ...

an old video of houses collapsing spread globally in social media posts that falsely linked it to the disaster. The footage was in fact shot in Japan and circulated in news reports about an ...

Jinya Ramen Bar will open at The Shops at Riverside. A Bathing Ape is at American Dream. There's a new pickleball center in ...

Martha Graham Dance Company reminds us that our city continually reinvents itself, with or without disasters like the ...

the onsen is one of the most famous in Japan, drawing around 330,000 visitors each year. Travelers from around the world flock to the 300-year-old town during winter not only for a dip in the ...

But when she opened her mouth to speak, it was with a cheerful, slightly nasal twang: the voice of a 24-year-old stay-at-home mother. To generations of Japanese, she is Sazae-san, the titular char ...

Julia D’Orazio travels back to where Japan’s wellness trend began 3000 ... We walk along Dogo Haikara Street, the area’s undercover shopping arcade, connecting the onsen to Dogo Onsen ...