During the record rainfall across Chiba Prefecture on Aug. 13 to 14, many vehicles were submerged as roads flooded.

In part of the town of Yuza in Yamagata Prefecture, a local custom is getting underway as residents hang toy cars under the ...

Emperor Meiji first visited the site that would become one of Japan's most controversial shrines in 1874. He vowed that the ...

Roki Sasaki pitched six innings of two-run ball as the Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 on Thursday.

Welcoming the Asian Games in summer for the first time in 32 years next month, Japan is aiming to eclipse its record tally of ...

Four people died and one remained unresponsive as heavy rain pounded eastern Japan on Thursday and continued into early Friday, with ...

This 27-year-old Mainichi Shimbun reporter spent seven hours stranded on flooded roads after torrential rain hit Chiba ...

The Topix index ended at a record high for the third consecutive trading day on Friday as the release of a ...

Foreign visitors to Cambodia's northwestern Siem Reap province, home to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Angkor temple ...

With arms raised and fists clenched, rescuers in Colombia called for silence Thursday as they listened for signs of life in ...

Firefighters were tackling multiple fires in central England on Thursday after the U.K. recorded its hottest day of the year ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the Northern Territories -- a group of four islands off the Hokkaido coast ...