Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is contemplating dissolving the Lower House when the ordinary Diet session convenes on Jan. 23, ...

SHIZUOKA--A Japanese mining ship departed on Monday for a remote coral atoll to probe mud rich in rare earths, part of ...

KITA-KYUSHU--Flashy outfits were a common sight at an adulthood ceremony here, a fashion statement that received a thumbs-up ...

NAHA--The Naha deputy mayor will run in the Okinawa gubernatorial election and likely gain support from the Liberal ...

Some people break into a run from the starting line, galloping through life with effortless grace. Others are late bloomers, ...

SEOUL--North ‌Korea's Kim Yo Jong, ‍the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, urged South Korea to investigate recent drone ...

JERUSALEM--Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar met in Jerusalem with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Sunday.

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

Tokyo police have arrested an executive of a company that manages fan clubs and organizes events on suspicion of producing ...

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the ...

While bear sightings and attacks have surged in northern Japan, wild deer are also causing a record number of traffic ...

Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire on Jan. 10 on Mount Ogiyama straddling the Yamanashi Prefecture cities of ...