Two Asahi Shimbun reporters will accompany the 67th observation team to Antarctica departing from Japan in December.

A campground has opened beside a dam lake here to offer tourists more to do in this sleepy town than just observe a famous ...

Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the ...

Torrential rain pounded the Tokyo metropolitan area on Sept. 11, flooding buildings, disrupting transportation services and ...

A United Airlines passenger plane carrying 142 people and bound for the Philippine island of Cebu made an emergency landing in Osaka on Friday after an indicator showed a fire in the cargo room, ...

WAKAYAMA—A traditional mikan cultivation method, which dates back at least 400 years, has been recognized as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) by the U.N. Food and Agriculture ...

NAGASAKI--Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visited a nursing care facility here on Sept. 13 ...

The woman whose genetic test in the 1980s led sports leaders to conclude it was too intrusive, not definitive enough and, ...

Sebastian Coe, the head of World Athletics, on Friday said the organization is sticking to its long-held position that ...

The race to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as head of the Liberal Democratic Party is shaping up as a battle by five ...

For years, a humble little railway crossing at Kamakura-Koko-Mae Station on the Enoshima Electric Railway Line here has ...

Crown Princess Kiko marked her 59th birthday on Sept. 11, looking back on a year where she saw her son start university and ...