Kinki, Japan News

The U.S. manufacturer of hugely popular Crocs sandals is warning buyers not to purchase oversized shoes when fitting them with accessories, following a spate of cases of ripped toenails.

Centuries after their ancestors first turned rice into wine, the Japanese are falling out of love with their traditional tipple.

Rebecca Kuo, Tainan; Yvonne Yu, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 5 August 2008] A fire occurred at the Asahi Glass plant in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan last week, which should impact glass substrate supply for Sharp, ...

A 25-year-old man died Monday after jumping from the second floor of a building while being questioned by police over allegedly groping a woman, police said.

Richard Moore grew up knowing his grandparents had endured four years of brutality and starvation in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps.

In the summer two years ago, Shinya Yamanaka, a Kyoto University professor of stem cell biology, announced a major breakthrough.

TOKYO : Japanese electronics makers reporting fiscal first-quarter results Thursday mostly reported better fortunes, as a reshaping of their businesses and healthy global demand for flat-panel TVs worked as big ...

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. plans to build a new 100 billion yen lithium-ion battery plant in western Japan, the Japanese maker of Panasonic electronics products said Wednesday.

Nintendo of Japan says its profit for the fiscal first quarter rose 34 percent from a year ago as sales of its hit Wii video game consoles shot up.

The Lansing School District is in the final stages of preparing to send a delegation to Japan.

According to new research, a lifetime of eating tuna, sardines, salmon and other fish appears to protect Japanese men against clogged arteries, despite other cardiovascular risk factors.

A major river has overflowed in the Western Japanese City of Kobe. As much as 120 millimetres of rain fell overnight in the city of Toyama near the eastern Sea of Japan.

Japan is a great country, with a lot to offer both short-term visitors and tourists as well as people like me, who like the place so much we put down permanent roots.

The wild Oriental White Stork went extinct in Japan more than 30 years ago. These days, the bird - the country's national symbol - can only be found in captivity in a single city in Japan, Toyooka.

Before we get to the grand finale and epilogue, a few random observations that I never really managed to shoehorn in anywhere else: - Japan still has coin-operated left-luggage lockers, everywhere .

Talks under way to help fund Purple Line NAREERAT WIRIYAPONG The Finance Ministry has started talks with the Japan Carbon Finance Ltd to sell carbon credits from Bangkok's new Purple line to help raise funds to ...

Band of brothers: Jerry Yellin poses with his squadron on Iwojima in April 1945.

In this age of uncertainty over the environment, many want a darker future for this country.

If a male Japanese beetle is unable to detect the sex pheromone released by a female, he won't be able to locate her and reproduce.

Before we get to the grand finale and epilogue, a few random observations that I never really managed to shoehorn in anywhere else: - Japan still has coin-operated left-luggage lockers, everywhere .