A complicated, rare heart surgery pioneered more than 50 years ago is making a comeback, due to improved techniques that yield better results.

Washington has confirmed its security treaty with Japan covers the disputed islets, but concerns remain about Trump’s ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki,” or bean-throwing, at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and homes sees people marking ...

A temple in Japan's capital will soon offer "omikuji" paper fortune-telling slips in Braille, as the writing system for blind people and thos･･･ ...

Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring ...

Thanks to a weak yen, Tokyo has become a surprisingly affordable vacation spot for American travelers—and you don’t even have ...

The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also its most visited. The Senso-ji Temple sees about 30 million annual visitors and its inception dates all the way back to year 628. Despite its claim to ...

The Curtis Institute of Music on Tuesday outbid Temple University for the Art Alliance building, owned by the shuttered University of the Arts, a spokesperson for Curtis confirmed. The institute bid ...

Japanese police arrested Kinuko Iwamoto, former chancellor of Tokyo Women's Medical University, on Monday on suspicion of breach of trust involving fictitious payments of construction consulting ...

The suspect, a 22-year-old South Korean sociology student, was subdued and arrested at the scene of the attack during class at Hosei University‘s Tama campus in western Tokyo. Police say the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japanese police have arrested a student suspected of a hammer attack at a Tokyo university, which left ...