Knowing when and how to divide your plants can lead to a bounty of additional greenery and blooms in your garden. Learn the ...

A movement to change the rules around surnames has been brewing, led by women’s rights advocates and those trying to preserve the diversity of the Japanese surnames in a nation where a handful ...

The culprits may very well be Japanese beetles–small insects known for feasting on over 300 different plants and destroying lawns, gardens, golf courses and pastures in their wake. To avoid ...

The Japanese yen hit a fresh multidecade low before rebounding sharply, after the government stepped in to shore up the currency. The yen weakened past 160 to the dollar early Monday, before ...

There is no national language in Japan, though over 99% of the population speaks Japanese as their first language. Some in the cities speak English, but it’s not guaranteed. Although the ...

Japanese citizens recognize that baseball players betting on baseball — even if the wagers aren’t made on a bettor’s team — is taboo. Most support bans on nearly any sort of sports gambling.

LOS ANGELES, April 11 (Reuters) - Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter was charged with bank fraud on Thursday in federal court and accused of stealing $16 million from the ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, April 19 (Reuters) - Five Japanese nationals in Pakistan escaped when a suicide bomber detonated their device on Friday, and police shot dead a gunman accompanying the bomber ...

A Japanese CEO has been found dead in a Moscow hotel room, the latest in a series of executive deaths in Russia. Acquaintances of Jun Aoki, chairman of Yamaha Music in Russia, had notified police ...

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TOKYO (AP) — A civil lawsuit accusing Japanese police of racial profiling opened Monday with emotional testimony from plaintiffs who said they were constantly stopped and questioned without good ...

Five Japanese nationals narrowly escaped a suicide bombing attack unhurt in Pakistan’s Karachi as one attacker died in the blast and police gunned down his accomplice. Police officials said five ...