June 3 marked 35 years since a major pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen's Fugen peak in Nagasaki Prefecture claimed the lives of ...

A notice bearing that message was posted last summer outside convenience stores in Niigata Prefecture, earning praise on ...

Former Japan captain Maya Yoshida will be part of the Samurai Blue's World Cup setup as a "support player," starting with ...

Japan's ruling coalition and two opposition parties on Friday submitted a bill to revise the law on referendums for amending ...

One in four Japanese students between the fourth grade of elementary school and the third year of junior high school has ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters on foreign-national policy on June 4 drafted a set of recommendations to ...

The amount of airborne cedar and cypress pollen in Tokyo this spring was roughly 1.8 times higher than last spring's level, ...

A quarter of a century has passed since railway companies in Japan began introducing women-only cars in their current form.

The Japanese government is considering extending support to restaurant operators and farmers hit by a drop in sales under an ...

A 20-year-old male Amur tiger, the oldest of his species in Japan, has died at a zoo in Fukuoka, according to the city.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week, both countries announced Friday, in what will be his first ...

Women accounted for a record 41.9 percent of central government employees hired on April 1, up 1.5 percentage points from the ...