An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook southwestern Japan on Tuesday, with tsunami advisories issued for the ...

The Tohoku Regional Forest Office has unveiled its work on maintaining forested "buffer zones," designed to separate bears ...

Junglia Okinawa, a forest-themed park in the northern part of Okinawa's main island, marked its first anniversary on July 25, ...

Hokkaido University issued a presidential statement on July 27 apologizing for past research on the indigenous Ainu people, ...

A special session of the Diet has come to a close, laying bare a critical situation facing the Japanese legislature. Prime ...

Former champion Kei Nishikori came from a set down against China's Shang Juncheng in the DC Open first round Monday to earn ...

Alaska is seeing a resurgence in oil development as Japan and other nations heavily dependent on Middle Eastern oil loo ...

About 20 to 30 people, including shopping mall workers, may be trapped inside a mall building after an explosion Tuesday in quake-hit ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's answers to Diet questions over a smear video scandal allegedly involving her taxpayer-funded ...

Eiji Bando, a former pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons who later became widely known as a TV personality, has died of chronic ...

Undisputed super bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue of Japan on Monday named American Jesse Rodriguez as his potential ...

Tatsuya Imai was knocked out early and did not factor in the decision as the Houston Astros came from behind to beat the Los ...