Another example is handheld fans that people wave in front of their face. The muscle exercise from this generates more body heat than the fanning of the face disperses. The only benefit is perhaps a ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a woman in her 20s on suspicion of abusing her three-year-old daughter by dropping her onto the floor at home, fracturing the child's right leg. According to ...

Police have seized radios in connection with a train accident that killed four workers on the tracks north of Tokyo, an investigative source said Sunday, as they seek to determine whether the ...

About 1,000 people towed the roughly 400-ton keep of a traditional castle in northeastern Aomori Prefecture on Sunday, moving it 109 centimeters closer to its original position after it was relocated ...

Two workers at a chemical product factory in western Japan died Sunday after being found collapsed there the previous day, police said. Police believe the two may have collapsed due to a lack of ...

A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 rattled eastern Japan, including the Tokyo area, early Sunday, injuring more than 20 people, most of them slightly, officials said. There was ...

Ray Hoe left Japan to return to Singapore on July 18 after failing to renew his business manager visa following abrupt changes to the requirements, leaving him unable to be present for the opening of ...

Ukrainian drones killed at least 10 people in attacks against targets across Russia and Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, including a warehouse owned by online ‌retailer Ozon and an industrial ...

An increasing number of hotels in Japan are offering "sleep tourism" experiences -- stays designed to promote high-quality and restful sleep. The trend, which started gaining popularity overseas ...

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner withdrew from the U.S. Open on Friday, unable to recover from a right knee injury that has sidelined him since winning the Wimbledon title. Sinner beat Alexander Zverev last ...

It would seem like right now would be a great time to operate a ninja theme park in Japan. With the yen at its lowest value in decades, the country is receiving record-breaking numbers of foreign ...

India and Japan agreed to bolster security ties including maritime cooperation on Thursday after their defense ministers met in New Delhi. India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and his Japanese ...