Torrential rain pounded central Japan on Tuesday, prompting an emergency flood warning for a major river in the region, as ...

A newly exhibited puffer fish at the municipal aquarium in this western Japan city is drawing the attention of visitors. Acc ...

The Yokohama Municipal Government on Sept. 8 released a third-party investigative panel report on the case of a boy at a day ...

The Japanese government has decided to nominate Hikone Castle in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, for registration as a ...

A Myanmar man who fled a farm in Hokkaido, where he was employed under Japan's Specified Skilled Worker status, said at a ...

The Japanese government is set to buy back 210,000 metric tons of the 590,000 tons of reserve rice it released last year.

Tenbi Junmai Ginjo Hotaten, a sake product from Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture, has won the highest award in the rice-wine ...

The United States, in past communications with the Japanese government about U.S. military bases in Okinawa, conveyed its ...

Mercari Inc., a major Japanese online flea market operator, said on Sept. 7 that it was removing listings linked to a ...

During telephone talks with his Iranian counterpart on Tuesday, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi urged Tehran to ...

A 22-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault for allegedly kicking her 2-year-old son, who died after being ...

Japanese students were among the top scorers in reading, science and math in an international learning assessment conducted ...