This western Japan town is trying to polish its long-established tourism assets such as hot springs and beaches after all the ...

Tran Van Son, a Vietnamese technical intern working at a factory in Kumamoto Prefecture, had recently become a father befor ...

Rui Hachimura expressed his desire to return to play for Japan on Saturday after distancing himself from the national team ...

Standing quietly on the edge of Kushiro Marsh in eastern Hokkaido, the former Iwabokki Sluice Gate in the town of Kushiro ...

The Kumamoto prefectural government said Saturday it has ended rescue operations at an Aeon shopping mall where seven worke ...

A strengthening El Nino has already broken records for intensity at its early stages, and it likely will spark even more wild ...

OTSU, Japan (Kyodo) -- A Japanese fireworks manufacturer and a university professor have jointly developed more environmentally friendly fireworks with water-soluble shell casings that naturally ...

Rich rice paddies and wheat fields: the Kanto Plain On June 11, 1878, Isabella Bird and her party set out from Kasukabe ...

Chicago White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami hit his 24th home run on Friday as Shohei Ohtani also reached the same n ...

Tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into Spain's tiny Ceuta territory returned voluntarily to Morocco on Friday, a day ...

Japanese companies have been implementing measures to protect workers amid the extreme summer heat, such as introducing ...

Hamas said Friday that it will begin disarming as part of a deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump that also requires ...