The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates to at least 1% as soon as the second half of next fiscal year, hawkish ...

A court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for joining her boyfriend in abusing her 6-year-old daughter, ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 36-year-old woman to 10 years in prison for abuse that resulted in her 6-year-old ...

SETOUCHI, Okayama Prefecture—A group effort in this sword-production area has completed a yearlong project to restore the Japanese-style blade of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Isao Takahata was nine years old when the firebombs fell. On the night of June 29 1945, incendiary weapons rained on Okayama ...

Boasting the fewest number of rainy days in Japan, Okayama is known as the land of sunshine. Located in the Chugoku region at the westernmost end of Honshu, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, ...

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Okayama Prefecture, known as the Land of Sunshine, is a fertile farming region. At the coastal town of Kurashiki, we meet high school students revolutionizing its famous denim, then ride to Kojima ...

A university in western Japan will establish a department specializing in dinosaur studies beginning next April as the field ...

OKAYAMA, Japan -- The company behind the high-end Momotaro Jeans label is stepping up marketing efforts targeting overseas ...

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