Weather officials warn that areas in the Kinki and Tokai regions that typically see little snow may be hit with heavy ...

For the first time, U.N. special rapporteurs called on the Japanese government to consider declaring a moratorium on capital ...

A government-commissioned panel of experts on Wednesday largely supported Japan’s new energy policy for the next few years ...

YAMAGATA--A film featuring secretly recorded interviews with detainees at an immigration facility in Ibaraki Prefecture sheds ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. filed an application with the government on Jan. 23 to raise electricity rates for households by an ...

In late August, six trainees were drawing anime characters under the guidance of an instructor at a room in a major anime ...

A scandal at Mitsubishi Electric Corp. involving fraudulent testing dating to the 1980s has already turned up nearly 200 ...

Nineteen people were taken to hospitals after a pungent odor spread at the Ginza Six commercial complex in downtown Tokyo ...

A canned mackerel product developed by high schoolers in Fukui Prefecture for consumption in outer space has returned to the ...

Komusubi Wakatakakage took another major step on the comeback trail from a severe knee injury suffered three years ago, ...

Driven by the weak yen, Japan's economic output produced its lowest percentage on record in the global economy last year, ...

Convenience store chain operators are now focusing on compact, unstaffed shops that emphasize quality as the number of their ...