When the series began, it was a Japan-only Nintendo 64 life sim (Dōbutsu no Mori) designed without much thought about how it ...

KOBE—Kazumi Inamura, a former Amagasaki mayor in Hyogo Prefecture, announced on Oct. 8 that she will run for the prefectural governor's seat that was recently vacated by scandal-ridden incumbent ...

Kazumi Inamura, a former mayor of Amagasaki in the prefecture, has taken a slight lead in the Nov. 17 poll, according to an Asahi Shimbun survey and the newspaper’s reporting. The situation ...

YouTube filed a lawsuit against Ganjingworld, which operates the Gan Jing World video-sharing site, alleging that it has been “automatically vacuuming up YouTube user channels and associated con ...

The Kings World Cup Nations, created by Gerard Piqué, will feature 16 national teams in a 7-a-side format that blends ...

Japan was once a 'locked country'. The Tokugawa shogunate's Sakoku foreign policy severely limited Japan's interaction with foreign nations from 1639 to 1853.

Still, we're taking time to look back at compelling videos that captured the attention of the nation — and the world — over the past year. From a whale breaching and landing on a boat to first ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...