Police in Asago City, Hyogo Prefecture, have arrested a 50-year-old part-time supermarket employee who claimed that she was robbed of 4 million yen in store sales proceeds as she was about to get into ...

Massive flash floods in a border area of Nepal and China on Wednesday killed at least 160 people and left hundreds of tourists, workers and others missing after sweeping through communities and ...

Japan's Defense Ministry has signed a contract with Nippon Steel Corp to acquire the site of the company's former plant in the western port city of Kure, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said. The ...

Japan's government on Wednesday revealed a comprehensive plan to strengthen its energy supply structure, focusing on diversifying oil procurement sources and supporting pipeline construction in ...

Heavy rain battered parts of central Japan on Thursday, causing landslides and flooding with a series of reports of cars becoming submerged and calls for rescue. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued ...

Japan plans to provide defense equipment and other supplies to the armed forces of at least 12 like-minded countries under its Official Security Assistance program in fiscal 2026, up from eight ...

Japan's Yuki Joseph Nakajima celebrates after winning the men's 400-meter race at the Diamond League athletics meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are planning to make a day trip to Kumamoto Prefecture in late September to visit areas hit hard by a July earthquake, sources affiliated with the Imperial ...

The decomposing bodies of three unidentified individuals were found at a residence in Ono town, Gifu Prefecture, on Monday. According to police, shortly after 4 p.m., they received a call from a ...

Four watches worth around 200 million yen were stolen in a matter of seconds Tuesday from a store inside a shopping complex popular among anime and manga fans, police said. Two men wearing black masks ...

New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham unveiled plans Wednesday to offer those sleeping rough a way off the streets by Christmas, and vowed to donate part of his salary to help curb homelessness. "No one ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc on Monday completed its third year of releasing treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, with 172,700 tons released ...