YAMAGATA--Winter in Japan’s northern Tohoku region is often cast as a surreal spectacle concerning the Zao mountain ...

A record high number of poll respondents expressed an interest in the Self-Defense Forces, which has received positive ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering calling a ⁠snap parliamentary election in the ‌first half of ‍February, ...

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

The municipal assemblies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are urging the government to maintain its three non-nuclear principles of ...

According to the traditional Japanese calendar, this year is Hinoe-Uma, or the “Fire Horse” year, which recurs every 60 years ...

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 ...

Japan banned the production and use of asbestos in 2006, but new health cases caused by the carcinogen continue to emerge ...

SEOUL--South Korean ‌President Lee ‍Jae Myung will visit Japan on Jan. 13 and 14 for a ‍summit ​with Japan's Prime Minister ...

A bluefin tuna caught off Oma, Aomori Prefecture, netted a new record-high bid at the first auction of 2026 at the Toyosu ...

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