Erik Buhrow dreams of retiring in Japan. Until then, he'll rent out the akiya, or abandoned home, to other Americans who want to try living there.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Fukushima Prefecture's Aizu region early Thursday and the Japan Meteorological Agency has ...

Facial recognition ticket gates will be introduced Friday for some Keisei Electric Railway Co. express trains linking downtown Tokyo and Narita airport, aiming to reduce congestion caused by rising ...

Lead Real Estate Co., Ltd (Nasdaq: LRE) (“LRE,” or the “Company”), a Japanese real estate developer of luxury residential properties including single-family homes, condominiums, and hotels (ENT ...

NIAFF aims to connect the world and Japan, as well as animation filmmakers and fans. Within just two years after its inauguration, NIAFF already achieved a firm track record. The third edition of the ...

TOKYO >> Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to deploy unmanned firefighting robots and other specialized ...

The average price of new condominiums released last year in central Tokyo topped 100 million yen ($639,000) for the second year in a row, as costs for building materials remained high, real estate ...

Japanese police said Thursday that they arrested a man for kicking a rabbit, as authorities probe the deaths of more than 70 ...

The event also featured poems by other members of the Imperial family and 10 by members of the public selected from 16,250 poems submitted from around Japan and overseas, as well as poems by the jury ...

A man stabbed three people at a train station in central Japan on Wednesday before fleeing the scene, leaving one person dead, local media reported.

Tokyo — Nissan Motor Co. intends to downsize production at a subsidiary plant as part of its plan to restructure domestic ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month ...