Four teenage boys were arrested in the killing of a woman at her home. The police say they might have been directed by a new ...

Cat Lady and Santa Monica designer Josh Wood had booked tickets to Japan with a flight scheduled for April 2020, but he had to cancel those plans when the COVID-19 lockdown hit. He took all the notes ...

Jun Hongo is a Japan Real Time reporter for The Wall Street Jounal. He writes broadly about Japan on a variety of topics. Follow him on Twitter @junhongowsj ...

President Donald Trump said he is holding off on a planned military strike on Iran at the request of several allies in the Middle East because “serious negotiations” are underway ...

The Trump administration says it’s creating a $1.7 billion fund to compensate prosecuted allies of the Republican president after he moved to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba reexamined the causes of the Fukuchiyama Line derailment that occurred in April 2005, ...

Misinformation surrounding Japan's growing anti-immigration stance has spread across the region, with the latest instance being an AI-generated video of Muslims supposedly praying onboard a crowded ...

Microsoft today announced a $10 billion (approx. ¥1.6 trillion) investment in Japan from 2026 through 2029, built around three pillars: Technology, Trust, and Talent. The commitments include expanding ...

Subways are one of the few places where you never quite know what the next stop will bring. One moment, you’re looking for a seat, the next, you are looking at someone dressed as Optimus Prime. Bored ...

Sounds like another subway nuisance! Straphangers already struggling to hear service updates over the roar of the subway will soon have to put up with paid commercials blaring through the same ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran on a campaign promise of fast and free buses, which the MTA estimates would cost at least about $1 billion a year. But a new report from the NYU Marron Institute says if the ...