Japan's weather agency on Friday warned that a typhoon could approach the country from the Pacific and make landfall the ...

IWAKI, Fukushima -- A unique disaster prevention workshop in this northeastern Japan city used a "zombie attack" on a town as ...

The main building of the Aichi Prefectural Government is changing almost all of its old squat toilets to Western-style ...

Japan's ruling party led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is increasingly likely to miss its envisioned end-of-June deadline ...

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Japanese authorities said Saturday they had received reports of 10 people sustaining minor injuries due to the magnitude-5.6 ...

Epicenter: Yamanashi Prefecture. N 35.6 , E 139.0 Preliminary magnitude: 5.6 Note: No tsunami warning issued. Note: An ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako returned to Tokyo on Friday after official visits to the Netherlands and Belgium ...

A bear scratched three panes of glass in the automatic entrance doors of a fire department building in Yuzawa, Akita ...

The head of a Japanese shipping industry body on Friday stressed the need to secure the safe passage of ships stranded in the ...

A rare double earthquake ravaged Venezuela on Wednesday, killing at least 920 and injuring another 3,360, authorities said.