HANAMAKI, Iwate Prefecture—Hotel employee Chen Mei Hui has helped to put this hot spring resort in northeastern Japan on the must-visit list for many tourists from her native Taiwan.

The story focuses on the relationship between a middle-aged Japanese salaryman (Toshimi Watanabe) and his teenage daughter Midori (Rena Takeda). After getting divorced, Midori’s father has the ...

The bass player is traditionally the “quiet one” in a band – or as Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls would put it, the lukewarm water. But that’s seldom the case in prog rock, where bassists ...

The number of children born in Japan in 2024 fell from a year earlier to 720,988, marking the ninth consecutive year of record lows, health ministry data showed Thursday. The figure including ...

A top adviser to Fuji Television Network Inc. resigned on Thursday from his post as a member of the management advisory panel, the Japanese broadcasting giant said, in the wake of criticism over the ...