A European investment fund group said Tuesday it will acquire Kakaku.com Inc, the operator of Japan's popular Tabelog restaurant review and online reservation website, launching a takeover bid that is ...

China’s exports of passenger cars surged in April, an industry group said Monday, as its carmakers push to expand in overseas ...

A Tokyo-based university has opened a laboratory where robots are carrying out medical experiments once handled by human ...

Police in Fukushima City have arrested an 81-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 76-year-old disabled wife at their home. Police said Takumi Inoue is accused of hitting his wife Etsuko in the ...

One of President Donald Trump's favorite metaphors is that he's got the cards -- that through the might of the United States ...

The gap between young and older Americans' views of the job market now is greater than in any other country among the 141 ...

A family of three were taken to hospital following an emergency call reporting a suspected spraying incident inside a JR Tokaido Line train running near Tokyo on Sunday, according to police. The ...

Sex aids in Japan have a long history. In more recent times, full-size, life-like manikins, referred to as "Dutch Wives" or "Love Dolls," have found popular use as sex substitutes for the handicapped, ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in the central Japanese prefecture of Fukui said it halted its reactor Friday morning ...

An outbreak of the deadly hantavirus on a Dutch-flagged cruise ship is reviving conspiracy theories about vaccines, alleged ...

Key lawmakers of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party are set to launch a new group to promote the national security and ...

Abdoulaye Diarra was beaten and burnt alive near his home in the Malian capital, wrongly accused of being a "terrorist" ...