Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and three other Cabinet ministers visited Yasukuni Jinja shrine in Tokyo on Aug.

Osaka Prefectural Police on Aug. 19 arrested a former manager of Osaka-based construction company Takenaka Corp. on suspicion ...

A flame-lighting ceremony for the torch relay of the upcoming Asian Games was staged in Hiroshima on Thursday, following a ...

Baseball players and coaches of Ariake High School, Kumamoto Prefecture's representative at the 108th National High School ...

A Malaysia Airlines plane bound for Kuala Lumpur aborted takeoff Thursday morning at Narita airport near Tokyo due to a ...

Champagne producers are racing to pick their grapes as the region's earliest harvest on record gets underway, after extrem ...

The government of this southwest Japan city honored three high school students on Aug. 18 for jointly rescuing three ...

Heavy rain in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo from the evening of Aug. 13 into the early hours of Aug. 14 flooded an unusually ...

A week after record rainfall caused extensive flooding across Chiba Prefecture in eastern Japan, the death toll stands at 13 ...

A) To qualify for new national subsidies for religious schools. B) To prepare for a government-led merger of private ...

A new buffet-style restaurant featuring locally sourced ingredients has opened in this western Japan city, aiming to promote ...

Plums harvested on the grounds of Hofu Tenmangu Shrine in this western Japan city are being dried in the sun as part of the ...