The quickest way to beauty is to sweat.” So goes the battle cry in a recent issue of Anan, Tokyo’s most influential women’s magazine. A year ago this same publication had boldly endorsed sex as the surefire way of attaining and...

A compilation of useless inventions by the Japanese. I wonder who uses them except for the inventors themselves. Picture on the right shows a solar powered lighter.

Japan on Thursday hanged four convicted murderers as it steps up the pace of executions, an official said. Japan is the only major industrial country other than the United States to use the death penalty. The government has said public opinion has...

Japan’s two major parties signaled Sunday they would reach a compromise on the next central bank chief, with only three days left before the post falls vacant amid global market turmoil. The opposition hinted it would back one of two potential...