The number of people suffering from hay fever, which seriously impacts daily life, is increasing worldwide. Behind this trend ...

Health tech entrepreneur Ajima Masumi has developed an app to analyze the condition of children with developmental disorders, ...

A local supermarket has won grand prize four years in a row in a major deli dish competition. We follow the deli dish maker ...

Canadian cultural anthropologist Edmund Hoff explores Japan's shotengai. While shopping malls are on the rise worldwide, he ...

Traditional Tsukemono, or pickles, preserve centuries of wisdom, allowing the vegetables' inherent flavors to shine. Picklers ...

How can farming in Japan be made more exciting? That question drives a farmer from Indonesia who sees potential to help his ...

US President Donald Trump has told Americans in his State of the Union address that he has engineered the biggest "economic ...

Record heavy rains in Brazil have left at least 40 people dead and many others missing. Torrential rainfall from Monday through Wednesday triggered landslides and flooding in parts of the southeastern ...

Kumamoto City in southwestern Japan says a new type of cherry tree has been found in the grounds of Kumamoto Castle.

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index broke through the 59,000 mark to set a new record high in intraday trading on Thursday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have confirmed that their countries will strengthen economic and other cooperation.

Japan's tallest structure, Tokyo Skytree, is set to reopen to visitors on Thursday after a closure due to a problem with an ...