The Sapporo District Court sentenced a 37-year-old farmer to 6 1/2 years in prison on Oct. 29 for setting fire to a mosque ...

Japan's iconic Mt. Fuji got its first snowcap of the season on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, with radar and ...

TANABE, Wakayama -- A shrine in this western Japan city has unveiled enormous New Year's "ema" votive plaques for 2027 ...

Gunma Prefectural Police announced Oct. 29 that errors in written driver's license tests for foreign nationals had resulted ...

The Japanese major weekly Sunday Mainichi will suspend publication next April, ending its more than 100-year history, its ...

An exhibition aiming to raise awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through the history of the former ...

A book with photos and illustrations chronicling the growth of Punch, a Japanese macaque at a zoo in eastern Japan who ...

A new chapter has been written in the history of shogi. Tomoka Nishiyama, holder of the Hakurei title, will become the first ...

Legislation to establish a "second capital" to serve as a backup for Tokyo's core functions and decentralize economic ...

Character licensing company Sanrio Co. said Thursday it has decided to end a tie-up campaign with the hit Japanese spy ...

Researchers are conducting an excavation for fiscal 2026 at a fossil site in the Churui district of this northern Japan town ...

Breakfast can wait. For 17-year-old Misaki (a pseudonym), the first priority of the morning is sitting before a mirror for up ...