In Japan, policymakers and economists are paying close attention to the "oshikatsu" phenomenon as a growing driver of ...

The Alaska Gasline Development Corp.'s board approved signing an agreement with Glenfarne to shepherd the $44 billion Alaska ...

Sending mail overseas from Japan can seem a bit tricky at first. When I first moved to Japan, one of the biggest challenges I ...

Unlike in most nations, where janitors or custodians clean, Japanese students personally clean their classrooms, corridors, ...

TOKYO—Japan’s consumer inflation slowed slightly in February due to energy subsidies but continued trending up amid a record spike in rice prices and indications of strong wage growth ...

In recent years, O’Connor has come under question for using racial slurs in her work and her letters, and for not enthusiastically embracing the civil rights movement. (She turned down an ...

Other stars paid tribute to Trachtenberg soon after her death. “Heartbreaking,” “Harriet the Spy” co-star Rosie O’Donnell said in a statement to Us Weekly. “I loved her very much.” Sarah Michelle ...

In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players in the world – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and more – went on a barnstorming tour around Japan. More than half a million Japanese ...

The U.S. government says the detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil might be aligned with terrorists. Friends and supporters of Khalil who are pleading for his release paint ...

“With the O'Malley family, they were all about globalizing the game,” McNamee said. “It was really important for Peter to make sure that everyone — including the Japanese media — was able to be ...

For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while non ...

He hugged the waiting crew who rejoiced at their arrival. "I was able to return to the ISS with lots of energy," Onishi said in Japanese at a ceremony held later. "From tomorrow, I'll work hard on ...