The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Cabinet Office on April 20 issued a "Hokkaido-Sanriku offshore follow-up earthquake advisory" after a magnitude 7.7 quake struck northeastern and northern ...
A Mainichi Shimbun opinion poll conducted after a legal revision this month opened the way for joint parental custody after divorce found 53% ...
Osaka Prefectural Police on April 21 sent prosecutors papers accusing a man and a woman in their 40s of damaging ...
The Japanese government has revised the "Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology," which set rules ...
Rookie Munetaka Murakami homered for the fourth straight game, Sean Burke won for the first time in 17 appearances, and the ...
A controversial plan to reward people who report businesses hiring illegal foreign workers will take effect May 11 in a ...
Tokyo stocks were mixed Wednesday morning, as some heavyweight technology shares lifted the Nikkei stock index despite uncertainty ov ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced on April 21 that a public elementary school in the capital's Shinjuku Ward has ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan logged a trade surplus of 667.0 billion yen ($4.1 billion) in March, government data showed Wednesday.
Despite household savings reaching a record high in Japan, the most common budget plan for this year's long Golden Week ...
When it comes to cup noodles, there have long been plenty of products created through collaborations between popular ramen ...
On April 15, the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, a road that runs through the Northern Alps and connects Nagano and Toyama ...