A man was arrested early Thursday in Kyoto Prefecture after the body of his 11-year-old son was found in a local rural area ...

Pakistan's army chief arrived Wednesday for talks in Tehran in the latest diplomatic move to ease tensions in the Middle East ...

In Japan's izakaya pubs, people drink and discuss the usual topics including sports and politics. But one group of fathers ...

Japan's parliament will compile its view this year on revising a law to maintain the number of imperial family members, the ...

A sightseeing route that runs through the Tateyama mountain range in central Japan fully opened Wednesday for this year's ...

Watercress is spreading rapidly through rivers across Ehime Prefecture, becoming so thick in some areas of Matsuyama that the ...

Spending by foreign tourists to Japan in the January-March period rose 2.5 percent from a year earlier to 2.3 trillion yen ...

TOKYO -- Amid a declining birth rate and an increase in the rate of people who remain unmarried for life, "charitable ...

It is vital to share the lessons learned from major earthquakes and put them to use in mitigating future disasters.

A school designed to cater to the needs of truant children with flexible curricula has opened in the capital's Setagaya Ward, ...

The district court here on April 14 sentenced a former municipal junior high school teacher to two years in prison for taking ...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- China has been an "unreliable global partner" since the United States went to war in the Middle East ...