Japan unveils 'human washing machine' that cleans, rinses and relaxes you automatically. Japanese designers have unveiled a strange yet fascinating new invention — a fully automated washing machine ...

Human remains found in Japan have been identified as those of a 6-year-old girl missing since the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011, police said Friday. The disaster killed 15,900 people, with ...

TOKYO :Japan's wholesale prices rose 2.7 per cent in the year to September, data showed on Friday, holding steady from the previous month in a sign of persistent cost pressure that will likely keep ...

This file photo taken Dec. 14, 2023, shows the U.S. Department of State. (Kyodo) WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Japan has been making "significant efforts" toward meeting the minimum standards required to ...

A court in Japan has ruled that the legal requirement that transgender people alter the appearance of their genitals to change their legal gender is unconstitutional. The September 19 ruling of the ...

The Chinese military has warned against Japan’s laser weapon plans, accusing Tokyo of undermining regional security. Japan has made progress in road-mobile laser weapons and will begin a ship-mounted ...

TOKYO :Japan's output gap in the April-June quarter was upgraded to 0.3 per cent, its largest since July-September 2019, after reflecting a revised gross domestic product (GDP) data, the Cabinet ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Fossil fuels generated a record low share of Japan's utility-scale electricity supplies over the first half of 2025, marking an important milestone in the ...

The corporate raiders of the private-equity (PE) industry have been memorably compared to invading barbarians. But the industry is more usefully described as a machine, which converts investors’ money ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure ...

The National Police Agency (NPA) and the Cabinet Cyber Security Center in Japan have linked a cyber-espionage campaign targeting the country to the Chinese state-backed "MirrorFace" hacking group. The ...

While South Korea’s art scene has been stealing the spotlight in recent years, Japan is staging a quiet yet deliberate comeback. A recently published study by Dr. Clare McAndrew (the brains behind the ...