A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine. The suspect, Steve Lee Hayes, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

Nov. 14 (UPI) --Tokyo authorities arrested a 65-year-old U.S. tourist for allegedly defacing the gate of a local shrine. Police detained the suspect, identified as Steven Lee Hayes, at his hotel ...

Japanese personal-care business FineToday Holdings Co. will debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime Market in December, with an estimated market value of ¥219.4 billion ($1.4 billion ...

A new subway line connecting central Tokyo with the capital's waterfront by the 2040s is being planned to meet the needs of commuters in these growing areas, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.

Years after being collected for a museum that has never seen the light of day, the accounts of survivors of the 1945 Great Tokyo Air Raid are finally being heard. The recordings are part of a ...

Daniel Matthew Otto, a 33-year-old video game programmer from Sydney, was sentenced to 490 days in prison after he was convicted of assault and trespass against a 70-year-old man during what ...

Plans are underway for a massive skyscraper in Tokyo that could become the world’s tallest building. Called the Sky Mile Tower, the structure would reach 5,577 feet - about twice the height of ...

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Korean author Han Kang is into her fifth consecutive week on the fiction bestsellers list after her Nobel Prize win. Read ...

The sleek theater in central Tokyo closed a year ago for reconstruction. But the process has stalled, making it impossible to know when the facility will reopen. Performers of traditional Japanese ...

Ponda: There have been 21 cases registered in the state so far in the cash-for-jobs scam. Ponda and Mardol police stations have registered four cases and arrested eight people. Barring just one ...