Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday the government has confirmed that 13 people died after a magnitude 7.1 ...

Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami posted a message of concern for people in his home prefecture of Kumamoto in ...

Tokyo stocks were mixed Wednesday morning, as bargain hunting after the previous day's plunge was offset by lingering global ...

The Tohoku Regional Forest Office has unveiled its work on maintaining forested "buffer zones," designed to separate bears ...

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Tuesday ahead of Sen. Lindsey Graham's funeral, with ...

Materials related to British travel writer Isabella Bird (1831-1904) have gone on display at a facility in this northeast ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook southwestern Japan on Tuesday, with tsunami advisories issued for the ...

Imitation websites modeled on major conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) services are proliferating online.

WAKAYAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- "Baby cafes" serving baby food are opening across Japan, giving new mothers a place to gather and ...

Services on the Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train line will remain halted Wednesday, its operator said, a day after an ...

A powerful earthquake that struck southwestern Japan on Tuesday is likely to have been caused by a fault left unruptured in ...

Hokkaido University issued a presidential statement on July 27 apologizing for past research on the indigenous Ainu people, ...