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 ...

Police in Okayama City are investigating the deaths of a 17-year-old high school boy and a 17-year-old high school girl whose bodies were found in the girl’s bedroom at her home, in what police ...

An overwhelming majority of the House of Representatives of the Philippines voted to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday over alleged unexplained wealth and threats to have the president ...

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 ...

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

Japan's leading potato chip maker Calbee Inc will start selling some of its potato chip products in black-and-white packaging ...

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 ...

Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki, best known for the Ring series of horror novels, died on Friday at a hospital in Tokyo, his publisher said. He was 68. A native of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture in ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested an 18-year-old high school student on suspicion of threatening to kill his father. According to police, the boy is accused of threatening his father, who was at their ...

European oil and gas companies who posted huge profits in the first quarter on soaring prices caused by the war in the Middle ...

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

The risk of person-to-person transmission of hantaviruses in Japan would remain low even if infected passengers from a cruise ...