The largest electric scooter rental agency in Japan will heighten background checks on customers and introduce a demerit system to promote safety after regulations for the vehicles are eased in July.

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has destroyed or damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city.

HACHIJO, Japan -- I am driving a rental scooter along Tokyo Prefectural Route 216, brandishing a license plate that reads Shinagawa-ku, a ward in the southeast of the Japanese capital. With that, the ...

Both Hero MotoCorp and Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India posted declines in sales in February, underscoring the pressure on ...