Yamaguchi Prefecture has teamed up with the parent company of major conveyor belt sushi chain Sushiro and other partners to ...

Sweet potatoes can develop poorly when temperatures reach 30 degrees Celsius or higher, potentially resulting in smaller ...

Recently elected Okinawa Gov. Genta Koja said Monday that he supports a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. military air ...

Returning yokozuna Hoshoryu continued his positive start to the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament as he improved to 2-0 with ...

Japan's education ministry has presented draft ministerial guidelines stating that digital textbooks scheduled for ...

A Chinese man was referred to prosecutors Monday for allegedly disrupting a major mobile carrier's services in Tokyo's Ginza ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Godzilla Minus Zero" stomped into movie theaters with a chart-topping $31.6 million over the weekend, ...

MATSUMOTO, Nagano -- Shinshu University Hospital here is researching and developing "sterile flowers" that inpatients can ...

The tower she gazes at is Tsutenkaku, one of Osaka's most recognizable landmarks. Her father-in-law, the late Teiji Zatsuno, ...

A new snack made with Saga Prefecture's "Ichigosan" brand strawberries has joined the lineup of products bearing the name of ...

World leaders, delegates and climate activists on Monday will begin negotiations on curbing climate change, which in the last ...

The fire department serving the Fukuoka Prefecture cities of Munakata and Fukutsu has developed a small, unmanned ...