This is a sponsored story, created and edited exclusively by Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Tokyo Updates website. Golden Gai (meaning “Golden District”) lies in the space between Shinjuku’s upscale department stores...

Prince Hisahito, who could become emperor one day if the country’s succession laws are not changed, told his first news conference on Monday that he will strive to fulfill his...

A producer of the hit Japanese anime film “Your Name” has been handed a four-year prison sentence on charges of committing obscene acts against minors. Koichiro Ito was convicted of...

Osaka Prefectural Police on Saturday arrested a 41-year-old man on charges of abandoning a body after a child was found encased in concrete inside a metal box used for clothing...

Japan Tobacco, Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco have agreed to pay 32.5 billion Canadian dollars (¥3.4 trillion) to settle their litigation in Canada over health risks from tobacco...

London – Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is hoping the glamor of the Champions League can galvanize his injury-ravaged squad from its Premier League funk. The Gunners’ dream of a first...

Kazuyoshi Konishi, 52, a journalist who has experienced being a “trailing spouse” to accompany his wife on an overseas assignment, says men should be more involved in addressing gender inequality...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday emphasized that Japan has “no intention of taking sides” following U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s extraordinary blowup at the White...

A nonprofit group helping victims of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult plans to disband at the end of...