NIIGATA, Japan -- With Japan's ski season right around the corner, inbound visitors are already showing up at some of the country's resorts. But those in Niigata prefecture, for decades one of Japan's ...

OKAYA, Japan -- Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at ...

A repatriated Japanese citizen abducted by North Korea has collected signatures calling for the early return of the other victims.

Police in Miyagi, Yamagata and Ibaraki prefectures have announced that five Vietnamese men have been indicted on suspicion of widespread theft in seven prefectures, netting them 13.6 million yen in ...

Miyatsu, now a 21-year-old university student who has launched a program to teach kids about the importance of life, is among ...