A man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston and crashing his car through the front gate of her home has been found mentally ...

All the latest news, photos and more on Jennifer Aniston. The American actress made her rise to fame with the role of Rachel Green in US sitcom Friends during the 1990s, and has gone on to become ...

Telecom giant SoftBank Corp. is working with the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo to fine-tune an app called SureTalk that converts sign language gestures into text. When a person ...

A stately avenue formed by gingko trees in Tokyo’s leafy Meiji Jingu Gaien area is now lit up at night. The nighttime illumination is for 64 of the 146 trees in various autumn hues lined up in ...

Thirty-three national universities, more than 40 percent of the respondents, have or plan to introduce female admission quotas to address broad gender gaps in certain fields, according to a recent ...

The website “Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945” is now live and has been nominated for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program. An English version is ...

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that was previously more common in Japan among men, has sharply increased among young pregnant women and newborns, alarming experts. One in about 200 ...

SEOUL, South Korea--The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday mocked Washington and its Asian allies for what she called their “daydream” of denuclearizing the North ...

Individuals with a low educational background are at higher risk of early death compared with those who got a university-level education, according to the first nationwide study of its kind in ...

Rising prices continue to make life “difficult” for as many as 59.6 percent of households in Japan, according to a nationwide survey. The figure for 2023 is up 8.3 percentage points year on ...

OMAHA, Neb.--Billionaire Warren Buffett is upping his bet on Japan, announcing this week that Berkshire Hathaway will increase its ownership stake in five major Japanese trading houses. The first ...