The first Diet debate between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and opposition party leaders since the February House of ...

Police on May 21 announced the arrest of a 39-year-old man who allegedly tried to take a university entrance exam for a ...

The Chigasaki Municipal Government in Kanagawa Prefecture, known for letting its employees work in aloha shirts, has moved to ...

Eight teenage boys and girls in Fukuoka Prefecture have been arrested and referred to prosecutors over suspected group ...

The Environment Ministry will begin surveying bear populations in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region and vicinity in June by ...

The greatest number of constellations in Japan can be seen on the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, such as Ishigaki Island. Of the ...

A cherry tree believed to be of a new cultivated species was found on the premises of Kumamoto Castle here, and the municipal ...

A 46-year-old woman who lost her younger sister, Haruka, in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake sowed "Haruka's Sunflowers" ...

A bill to revise the Code of Criminal Procedure and reform Japan's retrial system has been submitted to the Diet. The ruling ...

Japan is mulling tapping some 500 billion yen ($3.1 billion) in reserve funds to subsidize household electricity and gas ...

Ozeki Kirishima and No. 13 maegashira Kotoeiho remained atop the leaderboard at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday, ...

Shohei Ohtani homered on the first pitch of the game before throwing five sharp innings of three-hit ball in the Los Angeles ...