T he Game Boy wasn't the first handheld gaming machine, but it was one of the most successful ones on its 1989 release.

Mega Man Powered Up is not just ... Persona games in history lives on. LocoRoco 2 is impossible to hate. Go on, try. After just a few minutes with Japan Studio's painfully cute platform puzzler ...

A Japanese man who lost his wife and three children in the devastating Noto earthquake early this year has completed a marathon race near their home wearing their photo on his T-shirt in memory of ...

(Mainichi/Yuko Machida) HANDA, Aichi -- A man in his 70s died on Nov. 10 after ... such as stethoscopes and blood pressure monitors. (Japanese original by Yuko Machida, Handa Resident Bureau) ...

HANDA, Aichi Prefecture—Local emergency responders are under fire here for wrongfully declaring an elderly man dead while he was still alive and in need of medical assistance. The man ...

there was only one arrest for such drivers in the prefecture, but the number increased to 12 in 2024 due to the growing number of inbound tourists. (Japanese original by Daiki Yano, Yokohama Bureau) ...

Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of robbery and murder after he broke into a house in February, assaulted the 72-year-old man living there and stole 15 ...

An entire city in western Japan has conducted a disaster drill to prepare for a mega quake predicted to occur along the Nankai Trough in the Pacific Ocean. Kainan City in Wakayama Prefecture held ...

Major Japanese banks, including the megabanks, increased average outstanding loans in the third quarter by 3.5% from a year earlier, following a 4.2% growth recorded in the second quarter.

Let the office debates begin — John Krasinski is People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2024. The magazine announced the actor-writer-director as its pick Tuesday night during “The Late Show with ...

Osaka Prefectural Police arrested a 51-year-old man on Monday on suspicion of fatally stabbing his ex-wife at an apartment complex in the city of Osaka. The suspect, Tadashi Hashino, whose ...

The latest pitching sensation out of Japan appears bound for Major League ... limitations when he signed with the Angels for a paltry $2.3 million in December 2017, than Yoshinobu Yamamoto ...