Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

Two men in Tokyo, Japan died after choking on mochi around New Years, and now officials are warning others to take care when ...

Two elderly men in Japan choked to death on mochi rice cakes as part of a New Year’s tradition that authorities have issued ...

Japanese media say a sociology student attacked her classmates with a hammer during class after voicing frustration at being ...

Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and ahead of the cherry blossom ...

Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ ...

In the Best Cities survey, Tokyo was praised highly for its public transportation, with 73 percent of respondents rating the ...

Japan  which has the most generous childcare leave policies in the world, has increased its spending on childcare and offered ...

As anyone who’s ever looked into the prospect of studying abroad at anything beyond the idle daydream level can attest, it’s ...

TOKYO: At least eight people were wounded in a hammer attack at a university in Tokyo on Friday (Jan 10), with the suspect ...