Torrential rain pounded central and other parts of Japan on Tuesday, suspending shinkansen bullet train services linking ...

A Myanmar man who fled a farm in Hokkaido, where he was employed under Japan's Specified Skilled Worker status, said at a ...

Yuichiro Tamaki has secured a third term as leader of the opposition Democratic Party for the People (DPFP), winning about 80 ...

A woman was killed after heavy rain flooded an underpass in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 7, as torrential downpours across ...

Some 500,000 sunflowers are in full bloom at the Yanagawa Sunflower Garden, located on reclaimed land along the Ariake Sea in ...

AOMORI -- The Japanese mountain mole, sometimes called a "phantom mole," has been found for the first time in the ...

Foreign buyers are flooding Japan's used-car market, seeing opportunity in the yen's historic weakness. Competition with ...

A game in eastern Japan is paying players to snap pictures of utility poles with their smartphones, helping a ...

TOKYO-- A hygiene product developed by a Japanese company based in the city of Shikokuchuo, Ehime Prefecture, has won the top ...

Japan's real wages in July rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier, increasing for the seventh straight month, government data ...

The central Japanese city of Nagoya on Tuesday issued a top-level warning to residents in areas potentially facing the risk ...

The U.S. dollar briefly fell into the 152 yen range in Tokyo on Tuesday morning, the first time since February, amid ...