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

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

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

Tatsuya Imai was knocked out early and did not factor in the decision as the Houston Astros came from behind to beat the Los ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's answers to Diet questions over a smear video scandal allegedly involving her taxpayer-funded ...

Eiji Bando, a former pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons who later became widely known as a TV personality, has died of chronic ...

Junglia Okinawa, a forest-themed park in the northern part of Okinawa's main island, marked its first anniversary on July 25, ...

Many people are feared trapped inside a shopping mall building after an explosion Tuesday in quake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture, with some ...

Hitachi Ltd. said Tuesday it has used U.S. startup Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model to assess ...

The Japan Coast Guard has searched a private high school in Kyoto Prefecture on suspicion of professional negligence ...

A special session of the Diet has come to a close, laying bare a critical situation facing the Japanese legislature. Prime ...

The turning point is said to have come with the discovery of the "ozone hole" by Japan's Antarctic Research Expedition. In ...