The ride-hailing giant’s chief executive has made a bet on how it can finally grab a bigger piece of one of the world’s largest taxi markets.

Oregon's hot springs are great spots to go au naturel in the wilderness. These tips will help you ensure that everyone has a ...

A Thai woman shared a photo of a boiled egg with pink egg white, raising concerns online as experts warn it could be dangerous.

devastated the area, leaving local businesses concerned about a talent drain. Sake brewing businesses in the affected region of Ishikawa Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan, which was additionally hit ...

Authorities have shot dead a bear cub on the premises of a hot-spring inn in the northeastern Japanese city of Sendai after it entered a waste storage site in search of food. Police said a worker at ...

An East Brainerd man was arrested for setting up a "spy camera" in the women's bathroom at the Dollar Tree in East Ridge. Elijah Desean Sanders, 26, of an apartment complex at 6574 E. Brainerd Road, ...

Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture is probably most famous for its koshihikari rice production, but that doesn’t mean that it’s only worth visiting in the warmer months. While we previously compiled some of ...

The Japanese government’s plans to tighten espionage and secrecy legislation have been welcomed as a necessary bulwark at a time of deepening national security concerns, although analysts fear that ...

It’s easy to while away an afternoon wandering Jimbocho, the Tokyo neighbourhood chockablock with more than 130 bookshops, crammed full of vintage and rare volumes, old fashion magazines and other ...

Cancellations have been surging at hot spring resorts in Japan's northeastern Akita Prefecture following repeated sightings of wild bears. At one inn in Odate City dating back over 130 years, more ...

It was a cold February day in northern Japan, snow piled high outside the onsen locker room windows as I slipped out of my clothes. Nervously, I stepped into the plumes of steam wafting from the next ...