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

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

Former champion Kei Nishikori came from a set down against China's Shang Juncheng in the DC Open first round Monday to earn ...

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

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Following the April launch of tougher penalties for cycling violations, such as holding a smartphone or umbrella and using it ...

An educational institution in Takarazuka said on July 23 that it will stop taking new students into its university from the ...

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Japan on Tuesday compiled emergency countermeasures aimed to prevent further harm and protect victims from stalkers that ...

Fifty years have passed since the late former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was arrested in the Lockheed bribery ...

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

Japan is looking for opportunities to rebuild relations, but China has given its neighbor the cold shoulder. The tensions ...