Luke Voit made the trip to Japan to play the second half of the 2025 baseball season. The former New York Yankees slugger liked it enough to run it back for 2026. Voit has re-signed with the Rakuten ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager ...

Just as the Yin-Yang symbol represents the two contrasting life forces that create absolute harmony, this brand-new house on wheels merges two visions that seem contradictory into a stunning design; ...

In 2005, my family moved to Japan when my then-husband was stationed there. I look back fondly on the relaxing onsens, vibrant cherry blossom celebrations, and delicious food. We only lived abroad for ...

A Japanese man has gone viral for defying age norms by falling in love with his classmate’s mother, who is 21 years his senior. The man even bought a home worth nearly 40 million yen (US$272,000) in ...

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If there's one thing that gamers and car enthusiasts have in common, it's their love of Japan. Home of Honda and Hatsune Miku, Infiniti and itasha, the Nissan Z and Zero Two — gamers and car ...

Sending a child to a state school, but paying for tutors is a private education through the backdoor (Getty/iStock) Kumon, a daily maths worksheet plus a weekly in-person session, cost about £40 a ...

The vast majority of Japanese do not want to live close to an American military base, according to a new poll, with people expressing concern about worsening crime, pollution, noise and the risk of ...

MANILA, Philippines—Japan, as usual, got a boost from the crowd on Wednesday night when it faced Libya for its last game in the 2025 FIVB Men’s World Championship. It felt like there were seven men on ...

The extent to which home field advantage plays a factor in sports is often hotly debated, and there are so many variables in play that it’s difficult to be conclusive. For Japanese athletes competing ...

A woman’s terrifying ordeal after her feline friend vanished has the internet abuzz about the “Japanese missing cat method.” According to a U.K. comedian, she tried all the conventional methods to get ...