Heavy rain pounded eastern Japan on Thursday and continued into early Friday, prompting the weather agency to issue a Level 5 warning, the highest on its scale, for downpours in more than one-third of ...

Yosakoi Festival started Monday in the western Japanese city of Kochi, drawing about 18,000 dancers in 197 teams from inside and outside Kochi Prefecture, organizers of the three-day event said.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage regained his parliamentary seat on Friday in an election he triggered to bolster his position against allegations of financial impropriety, a strategy ‌that was ...

Police in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, have arrested a 54-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of secretly filming inside the bathhouse of a hot spring facility. Police said Takayuki Okamoto is ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering refraining from visiting the war-linked Yasukuni shrine to mark Saturday's anniversary of the end of World War II, sources familiar with the ...

Police in Chikusei City, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 46-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of setting fire to the home where her parents lived, causing it to burn down completely. The ...

North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea on Wednesday, its neighbors said, the second such weapons testing activity in less than a week. The series of launch events were likely a ...

Typhoon No. 15, following an unusual path, is expected to hit Japan's main island of Honshu on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency forecast on Monday. Residents in the Kanto and southern Tohoku ...

Police in Misaki town, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of stomping on his 80-year-old mother, with whom he lived, causing her death. Police said Yoshiki ...

Shizuoka Prefectural Police on Monday arrested three men on suspicion of breaking into a home with intent to commit robbery and assaulting the resident in February. According to police, the suspects ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in southwestern Japan were ‌ordered to evacuate and more than 500 flights canceled on Friday as slow-moving Typhoon No. 13 approached ‌the region to bring violent winds ...

Honda Motor Co has developed a robotic hand capable of highly dexterous movements, marking a return to robotics with a new industrial focus after retiring its once-iconic ASIMO humanoid robot. The ...