Japan's education ministry proposed on July 8 setting annual class hours for a new junior high school subject, ...

The Gunma Prefectural Government is set to alter the application system for its "Gunma Passport" booklet from a first-come, ...

The risk of death from heatstroke rises when the daytime high exceeds 27.1 C, a joint study by the Tokyo metropolitan ...

Private rooms scheduled to be adopted on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines this fall with the introduction of a new ...

Internationally renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami released on Friday his first novel in around three years, a ...

July 8 marked four years since former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally gunned down during a House of ...

The recent bankruptcy of a Japanese credit-card transaction system provider has left tens of thousands of restaurants and ...

A star festival themed tunnel decorated with colorful weather dolls has been set up at Tanashi Jinja shrine in the western ...

As crimes by so-called anonymous, fluid criminal groups in Japan emerge as a social problem, a man in central Japan's Gifu ...

Graduate students at Germany's prestigious University of Bonn have been translating video testimonies by atomic bomb ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said "the Islamic Republic of Japan" fired missiles at a U.S. aircraft carrier, ...

The yield on Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond briefly hit 2.900 percent Thursday afternoon for the first time since ...